Example sentences of "to [noun] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this song will catch on , but I think Deano needs to buck up a bit for it to get sung some more . |
| 2 | Just realised that Gavin is at a conference today so it 's up to me to type up a report . |
| 3 | However , the job had to be done , and our training asserting itself , we began to pic up a few bits and pieces . |
| 4 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 5 | They wo n't take a slightest bit of notice … and will use the paper to role up a joint . |
| 6 | That devil forced her to edge up a little nearer to Naylor . |
| 7 | I 'm not trying to prove or disprove anything , or to firm up a particular belief system . ’ |
| 8 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 9 | Proposal to Set up a Cook-chill System |
| 10 | Then the two , who hope to become the first men to walk 2,200 miles unsupported across Antarctica , battled on to set up a camp and radio their base . |
| 11 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 12 | So to set up a conflict in your mind between the states and the federal government mistakes the nature of that relationship . |
| 13 | For the first time — and it 's about time — we see Bertie Wooster as he really is , a bungling destroyer of sensibility , eagerly and inanely driving his men on to set up an advanced cricket pitch 100 miles behind enemy lines . ’ |