Example sentences of "could [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , one or two civil servants realise that the government could build up trouble if it allows a whole generation to grow up with a dislike for nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | Eve was so strange , she could make up tales and then , when everyone had got interested , she would say , ‘ Fooled you ’ . |
| 3 | There was no way I could bring up children there . |
| 4 | Oh come on , my three year cousin could beat up James . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , work is under way on a European Commission draft directive which could tighten up demands already implicit in UK fire safety regulations . |
| 6 | Hong Kong Land 's low gearing , and chairman Simon Keswick 's suggestion that he could snap up property at depressed prices , triggered hopes the company was interested in Canary Wharf . |
| 7 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 8 | Of course he could look up Robin Tatian but where , really , would that get him ? |
| 9 | She wished she could ring up John Coffin to ask what they wanted . |
| 10 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the Americans could draw up contingency plans on the assumption that there would be air bases in Egypt from which to strike against southern Russia . |
| 12 | They were a kind of enabling powers — you could set up circumstances that would fit either . |
| 13 | A year later the Government through its " Training Agency " , allowed money to 30 " Urban Programme Areas ' so that they could set up Compacts . |
| 14 | Any more and I could set up shop ! ’ |
| 15 | The researchers could chase up forms , and keep the motivation going even when team members were hard pressed . |
| 16 | Perhaps England could sign up Bernard Tapie for the games next week . |
| 17 | By depriving employers of potential labour , this could force up wages . |
| 18 | She smiled at this and said if I wanted a change I could knit up navy blue wool for the Royal Navy , which I did . |
| 19 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 20 | Perhaps er they could take up services . |
| 21 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 22 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 23 | ‘ You could take up ballet . ’ |
| 24 | Rod Stewart could liven up EastEnders , Princess Margaret ( who has already appeared in The Archers ) could add some class to Eldorado and Kenneth Branagh could make Ken Barlow feel inferior in Coronation Street . |
| 25 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 26 | She could read up Guillain-Barré Syndrome . |
| 27 | Then you could walk up Madison Avenue and see a fake in the window . |
| 28 | A £500 washing machine could go up £15 and a £600 TV by £18 . |
| 29 | But , with the group expected to follow George Wimpey and John Laing in making substantial provisions , it could end up £25m to £30m in the red . |
| 30 | Some companies could end up losers from the move as much of the tax has , up to now , been offset in this way . |