Example sentences of "used [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah .
2 He er , Hugh and I used to come up every day do what we could , you see , in those days if you had a stroke you had to lay there till you died .
3 The small amount of finance used to set up the company came from Garrett 's personal savings .
4 You may have noticed that the dialogue boxes used to set up the Program Groups and Program Item both have a Password option .
5 not so used now , though once used to cover up the flavour of unpleasant medicines
6 These were in turn used to gross up the export values declared by respondents to estimates of exports for all exporters in Scotland .
7 Group rewards of a symbolic kind like a group photograph or company shield with the group 's name on it are important devices used to build up the sense of practical ideological community .
8 But the highlight of it was that I used to get a ride on the dray and I used he he we used to finish up the round at the bottom of erm Road , and Street .
9 I used to ring up the ambulance people : ‘ There 's a fight and somebody 's got hurt at the Queen 's Head . ’
10 I adored it — the glamour , the feeling of being in the hub of things which I love — I love clothes — I used to make up every day and make myself look nice and meet people … to me it was n't work , every minute of it was enjoyment …
11 Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved .
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