Example sentences of "up keep the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient is taught to lift his arm by gripping it behind the elbow with his other hand , drawing it gently forwards and up keeping the elbow straight , palm facing upwards , as he leans forwards from the hips . |
| 2 | A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem . |
| 3 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 4 | A company spokesman would not say what measures had been drawn up to keep the port running normally . |
| 5 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 6 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 7 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |