Example sentences of "could [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |
| 2 | They paid the headman of the village five hundred rupees and all of us had to streak through the forest making as much noise as we possibly could to round up the game . |
| 3 | They could make up the England rugby pack . ’ |
| 4 | After much negotiation , the Welsh Wool Marketing Board agreed to a special arrangement whereby the Cambrian Mill could make up the Ashley 's own wool into cloth as long as this was not sold , but used only for demonstration models and pattern samples . |
| 5 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 6 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 7 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 8 | This procedure , carried out each generation , could tie up the land indefinitely . |
| 9 | they could lock up the landlords er and perhaps even banish them . |
| 10 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 11 | So the very fact that the offspring are more mature , would reduce conflict , because the degree of value of the sources is going to be much greater , in other words , you could give up the sweet . |
| 12 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 13 | If only they could conjour up the magic of their last meeting against Milwall last season … three nil the score then . |
| 14 | A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor . |
| 15 | I know of only one or two couples who have managed to stay together when one partner has been unfaithful and I wish I could pluck up the courage to ask them how they 've done it . |
| 16 | So what they did eventually , they put sort of call boxes occasionally , in different parts of the borough so during the night you could ring up the station . |
| 17 | You could ring up the station . |
| 18 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 19 | But there is the problem of oxygen ‘ sinks ’ existing as well , which could use up the oxygen produced by recombining with any of the CHON molecules . |
| 20 | It was such a simple thing , to go against the consensus reality , but so few human beings could work up the willpower . |
| 21 | Possible candidates for Atherton 's place are Somerset youngster Mark Lathwell and England vice-captain Alec Stewart , who could move up the order to open if Jack Russell was recalled as wicketkeeper . |
| 22 | Alternatively , you could set up the WP3–7 to give two different volume levels , different sounds for slap and fingerstyle , different EQs for your fretted and fretless basses , or any other combination . |
| 23 | If this wife made such an application the husband could set up the fact of desertion as an answer to the claim , but he could not set up clause 3 as a bar to the proceedings . |
| 24 | If she put it all in one account she could step up the return on her £20,000 to 6.45 per cent or £1,290 after tax . |
| 25 | Anne and Mrs Bennet did what they could to clear up the house . |
| 26 | Oliver was trying to find out , in very slow English , when they could tidy up the flat and leave Antibes . |
| 27 | But in this case , Everett argued , Guinness Mahon could take up the slack as the company fully expected other investors who had been too slow to meet the deadline to come in . |
| 28 | We are just completing two major jobs and Conoco 's could take up the slack , ’ he said . |
| 29 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 30 | Supposing I could call up the eagles ? |