Example sentences of "was [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general the effect of the Commission 's inflated purchasing ability was to drive up the price of land in the borders . |
| 2 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 3 | it 's a very sad day for me with my last test flight , I started here in nineteen eighty three and my first job was to clean up the station after the air show |
| 4 | His only answer was to pick up the knife and hand it to me . |
| 5 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 6 | The task was to set up the office , get a system going to deal with the fan mail , gifts and general correspondence , liaise with dress designers and process the requests for patronages as they came in . |
| 7 | Then she heard Christ speaking to her , saying that she would have victory over all her enemies , and that she was to give up the hair-cloth that she wore and her continual saying of the Rosary , but must stop eating meat . |
| 8 | It was to draw up the Constitution of 1812 , the ‘ sacred codex ’ which defined Spanish liberalism as a political creed . |
| 9 | Another favourite pastime was to chat up the girls from Directory Enquiries while they were getting phone numbers . |
| 10 | We might note the irony at this point : the purpose of experimentation was to clear up the confusions , contradictions , and conflicting advice of common sense . |
| 11 | The second reason for the dispatch of Dzerzhinsky to Siberia was to clear up the situation after the Civil War , and to deal with Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 12 | The overall effect was to speed up the disintegration of the larger estates , but to leave the smallholdings virtually untouched but constantly threatened . |
| 13 | The result was to force up the price both of renting and of buying land . |
| 14 | All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release ! |
| 15 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 16 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |
| 17 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 18 | Radio Bangladesh quoted an official spokesman as saying on Aug. 10 that the independent Mecca-based Islamic body , Rabitah , had agreed to fund half the estimated US$50,000,000 cost of repatriation and rehousing , and Pakistan was to make up the rest . |