Example sentences of "for [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 2 | a facility for drawing up the next plan in the light of the |
| 3 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 4 | For toning up the whole body and increasing your stamina , swimming and running are both excellent . |
| 5 | the relaxing garden terrace and very peaceful swimming pool are a fantastic place for soaking up the long hot days in the sun , and the pool is served throughout the day by a restaurant/bar . |
| 6 | In this land of the lawyer , there is no more appropriate place for picking up the social , business and political threads of the city than a spectacle viewed from the public benches of a federal court . |
| 7 | The price to pay for picking up the public asset should be respect for the pension rights of the public company employees . |
| 8 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced that 15 billion Deutschmarks ( £6.3 bn ) will be made available for cleaning up the estimated 70,000 hazardous waste dumps in former East Germany . |
| 9 | The equivalent of US$2 million was allocated last year for cleaning up the polluted areas , but specialists say this is not nearly enough . |
| 10 | Well everybody 's conversations for to build up the new Lo , Longman 's dictionary with the new words and things . |
| 11 | France signed an agreement with China whereby in return for giving up the territorial concessions in the treaty ports , handing over the Yunnan railway , and meeting sundry other Chinese demands , they agreed to withdraw their troops from Indo-China by 15 March . |
| 12 | Now Mr Onanuga 's bosses have suspended him for making up the whole story about Mr Lamont . |
| 13 | One widely used criterion for dividing up the cerebral cortex is the organization of inputs from the thalamus . |
| 14 | They undoubtedly deserve them for being flexible enough to listen to the people and to bodies like the Royal Fine Arts Commission and for thinking up the innovative scheme itself . |
| 15 | Selling off the family silver , and look what we 're gon na have to do with that year You have criticised those for setting up the various units , and giving them target for . |
| 16 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 17 | be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme . |
| 18 | Dutta , 28 , told the jury he received £20,000 for setting up the front company of Rasiklal & Sons and providing letterheads and invoices . |
| 19 | The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market . |
| 20 | She done us for skating up the fucking |