Example sentences of "clear up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are like patients , who , suspecting that something is seriously wrong , steadfastly refuse to see a doctor in the hope that their troubles will clear up without the need to be told the truth about themselves or undergo painful treatment . |
| 2 | Incidents are categorized by the degree of paperwork involved , and the best shifts are those where ‘ you 're kept busy but with stuff you can clear up on the spot ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 34 ) . |
| 3 | If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now . |
| 4 | I retreated from this scintillating conversation and helped Oliver and Cathy clear up in the kitchen , and shortly before eleven we slid to a halt in the port that was halfway across Canada on some rails parallel with but a little removed from the station buildings . |
| 5 | Now is the time to have a really good clear up in the greenhouse . |
| 6 | Despite a last minute clear up by the travellers the common was still strewn with waste — the leftovers of a twenty thousand strong party . |
| 7 | It 's getting a bit late to clear up with the sun . |
| 8 | I 'm the one who makes sure food gets in one end and I 'm the one who has to clear up at the other . |
| 9 | Even where it is possible to clear up after the day 's work , another couple of unpaid hours work is added to the women 's costs and subtracted from those of her employer . |
| 10 | Despite the destruction , church services went ahead at the weekend in five churches in Armagh as workmen continued to clear up after the IRA bomb attack on the courthouse . |
| 11 | You have to clear up behind the tree bit . |
| 12 | In 1921 unemployment averaged nearly 14% , and it obstinately refused to clear up throughout the decade . |
| 13 | White cleared up to the pink with a break of 31 but missed a difficult black which McManus hammered into the yellow pocket . |
| 14 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 15 | You should have with you a page on which you have noted difficulties and doubts to be cleared up with the tutor . |
| 16 | Actually all the doubts just mentioned can be cleared up by the use of one word , though it is a word never used in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 17 | Some of the problems of the relative parts played by waves and currents are in process of being cleared up by the use of traceable sand and shingle . |
| 18 | Again from Criminal Statistics ( 1988 ) we see that there has been an increase in the number of offences cleared up by the police , between 1979 and 1988 of 27.3 per cent ( from 980,700 to 1,248,900 ) . |
| 19 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 20 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 21 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 22 | ‘ These were very serious situations which we wanted cleared up by the NRA but they refused to do anything about it . ’ |
| 23 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 24 | This is worth clearing up on the list now , before anything is sent , so what d'y'all think ? |
| 25 | On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed . |
| 26 | You talk about getting work you talk about getting work and all that sort of thing erm we 've offered John , at one point , that if he did a bit of clearing up in the churchyard erm that he would be given a small amount of money . |
| 27 | Mr Davies warned that with the extra costs of clearing up after the floods , other services could be hit unless the Government changed its mind . |
| 28 | And it was about that that Peggy now spoke to Mrs White , saying , ‘ I bet you had some clearing up after the mob on Friday night . ’ |