Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] up the " in BNC.

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1 Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ .
2 Meanwhile , fashion pundits were speculating last night that although Anne is likely to splash out on a new outfit , she will be wearing an old hat when she walks up the aisle .
3 The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen .
4 Sam Gamgee hits on the same thought when he takes up the ‘ Blondin' role of faithful minstrel in Minas Morgul , and sings ‘ words of his own ’ fitted to another old Shire tune :
5 He closes face when he picks up the bat .
6 Mr Tebbit is sometimes portrayed as a pantomime villain when he roughs up the clerics who venture to assume the prerogative in the political sphere .
7 When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets .
8 But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) .
9 It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill .
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