Example sentences of "would [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 2 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 3 | Draconian spending cuts through a cap on welfare and other non-discretionary ( entitlement ) spending , which would lead to nearly £300bn worth of savings over five years , defence cuts , a domestic freeze and the taxpayer check-off which could result in a maximum of $50bn in spending cuts , would make up the shortfall created by his proposed tax incentives . |
| 4 | Q. Who would make up the shortfall ? |
| 5 | Adding in the cost of the bus fare would jack up the APR to 33.7 per cent — more expensive than the local shop . |
| 6 | When Major stood outside Downing Street and promised ‘ a nation at ease with itself ’ , he was seen as a leader who would scoop up the votes of ‘ do n't knows ’ and floating social democrats . |
| 7 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 8 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 9 | It would dry up the flow of Japanese credit to all American borrowers , private or public . |
| 10 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 11 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 12 | Two Irish goals would bring up the century in Charlton 's seven-year reign , during which he has lost only nine of 69 full internationals . |
| 13 | Jones , a £600,000 bargain buy from Crewe last October , hoped that rest over the summer would clear up the problem . |
| 14 | After winning the AAA multi-events championship at the Don Valley Stadium two weeks previously , the Border Harrier had hoped that a short rest would clear up the trouble . |
| 15 | An alternative approach would break up the organisation according to some other criteria but implement each section in turn and allow for integration later . |
| 16 | During the summer of 1716 , a sensitive time since i August marked the anniversary of King George 's alleged usurpation of the throne , considerable unrest occurred in London where taverns associated with the Whigs were attacked by mobs which would break up the premises but leave enough of the stock undamaged to drink the health of ‘ James III ’ . |
| 17 | Simon muttered something under his breath about ‘ that would show up the teeth marks ’ which both of us hoped she did n't hear . |
| 18 | Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself . |
| 19 | If it happened all the time , I would give up the game — I 'd quit . |
| 20 | Marc would lap up the opportunity to use it against her . |
| 21 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 22 | 4-0 up and with the pack apparantly in tremendous form it looked as if Gloucester would sew up the game in the first half . |
| 23 | In ancient times , he said , deceitful sculptors would patch up the cracks with wax , but a man of integrity would make his statues without wax . |
| 24 | It was hoped that the Caracas talks would follow up the agreement on constitutional amendments with a detailed agreement on ceasefire terms and on how to deal with members of the military guilty of human rights violations . |
| 25 | With November came the herring season and the boats would sail up the coast to Torbay , then back around Bigbury Bay and Plymouth , although a few boats continued to fish for pilchards from Looe throughout the Winter . |
| 26 | He would tear up the lead card , and would storm back to his desk . |
| 27 | SHADOW Health Secretary Dave Blunkett vowed that Labour would keep up the fight to stop the Tories ruining the NHS . |
| 28 | However they said they would continue insisting on an 8pm bedtime and they would keep up the bedtime stories . |
| 29 | But I do know they would weigh up the dangers and think about the very fact that they could fly . |
| 30 | He called them spectaculars and would set up the storyline , do the lyrics and librettos with J. J. Wood and co-write the music with Cuthbert Clarke . |