Example sentences of "in [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’ |
| 2 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 4 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 5 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 6 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 7 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 8 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 9 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 10 | Even such apparently social differences as women 's larger attendance at church and enthusiasm for coffee mornings , and men 's greater participation in Rotarian meetings , are roped in to back up the argument ( Hutt 1972 ) . |
| 11 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 12 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 13 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 14 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 15 | Be prepared for off the subject remarks — put in to perk up the interview , or comments like ‘ so you all prance about in leotards , then ? ’ |
| 16 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 17 | Then we would fling ourselves upon each other at all hours of the day and night make love upon the unmade bed , for often we refused to let the maid in to make up the room : |
| 18 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |