Example sentences of "and [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again . |
| 2 | In his inaugural speech to the Knesset ( Israeli parliament ) on July 13 , however , Rabin said that his government would continue to " strengthen and build up Jewish settlement along the confrontation lines , due to their security importance , and in metropolitan Jersualem " . |
| 3 | A period of three years was thought to be necessary for census-taking and drawing up electoral rolls . |
| 4 | When another few minutes went by she was scratching her head to try and think up some way of making sure that Naylor would consider any such notion laughable . |
| 5 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 6 | ‘ We try to keep our own plants running flat out , at maximum efficiency , and make up changing needs by buying in the varying five or 10 per cent above that from other manufacturers . |
| 7 | You will have to fabricate an exhaust system or use the purpose built one available from Jake Wright ( 0943 863530 ) and make up suitable water hoses and throttle linkage The oil filter will have to be replaced with an adaptor and remote filter fitted to stop the axle touching the filter |
| 8 | To obtain the tensions , we resort to the copper wire again and make up rectangular loops which are sealed by soldering . |
| 9 | Then write the country and Brownie names on separate cards and make up some games . |
| 10 | We all had to find a partner and make up imaginary names . |
| 11 | The skills required to successfully design and make up complex documents are not learnt overnight . |
| 12 | The HP.42 , G–AAUC Horsa , took-off from Basra on August 28 at 22.30 hours , to try and make up lost time . |
| 13 | Few women are prepared for the difficulties of running a home and bringing up young children . |
| 14 | It developed into rheumatoid arthritis , but being confined to a wheelchair did n't stop Jackie marrying and bringing up three children . |
| 15 | Er because neither of us could really manage in the kitchen it was not long before we became very tired of having to eat convenience food sad looking old meat pies , dried out chips and heated up frozen vegetables soon palled . |
| 16 | Go over footbridge and pick up enclosed path , then lane into Branscombe village centre . |
| 17 | From the start , go right and pick up two crates , now kill the guard and the policeman , get the third crate and travel down the lift , at the bottom go right and kill the policeman , keep going right until you fall off the edge of the platform . |
| 18 | As time goes by , and more machines are added to the scale , you 'll have a month by month reference for PC performance — and as performance levels creep ever higher ( as they are doing at the moment ) we 'll extend the scale , and pick up new reference points . |
| 19 | Working towards this NVQ will help them to expand their skills and pick up new ones while learning how the branch works . |
| 20 | Come and talk to experts on food preparation and hygiene and pick up useful leaflets from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 21 | This is , after all , how we all gain knowledge and pick up useful tips . |
| 22 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 23 | So a female researcher is more likely to recognise , and pick up certain cues , or pick up the ways in which she 's not actually being addressed , than a male researcher necessarily . |
| 24 | Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense . |
| 25 | The machine does n't have a sheet-feeder option , but the paper load slot will accommodate up to 30 sheets , and pick up single sheets on demand . |
| 26 | I shall pop out for an hour this afternoon , to fetch the van and pick up some things . |
| 27 | ‘ The second is that we step out to the supermarket and pick up some supplies . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Davis , can you , would you like to sum up , and pick up these points , and before , I 'm going to bowl you a googly here , erm you have talked about fourteen hundred , as the size for the new settlement , erm , is that the top figure , or is that a figure to which you might aim by the year two thousand and six , but may have potential for growth beyond it . |
| 29 | Jane managed to help me and bring up two children without outside help . |
| 30 | ‘ We suspect they do n't want fans to become shareholders and bring up awkward matters at the annual meeting , ’ says TaW 's other co-editor , Steve Beauchamp . |