Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , I finished a recording for home and wrote up the log . |
| 2 | I agree with the hon. Member for Cardiff , North that we must consider the question of responsibility and tighten up the legislation . |
| 3 | And home he would stamp with his bat beneath his arm , vowing that one day he would become Minister of Agriculture and plough up the whole bally field . |
| 4 | This chapter describes , with some basic facts and figures , the range of institutions that make up the United Kingdom 's education system . |
| 5 | This is mainly dealing with the Social Fund which as you know , is erm , go undergoing changes , which means er loss of money and breaking up the fundings to twelve monthly amounts , which is creating great difficulties . |
| 6 | * I always think that it is better to make a fresh pot of tea than to top up the old pot . |
| 7 | Supermarket and delicatessen shelves are often stocked with many interesting tins and bottles of sauces that conjure up the promise of the Orient with their exotic names . |
| 8 | There are many different types of institution that make up the financial sector , from banks to building societies to various institutions in the City of London . |
| 9 | To match the pattern , turn in the side of one width of fabric and line up the pattern with the width to which it will be joined . |
| 10 | Changes in the relative numbers of the different types of household that make up the aggregate population have actuarial consequences for the future pattern of public and private transfers into and out of collective saving and insurance funds . |
| 11 | You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity and give up the struggle to maintain your own interests and identity . |
| 12 | If you have the sort of hairstyle that shows up the root regrowth within three weeks , necessitating retouching with either bleach or colourant , consider a restyle . |
| 13 | During a visit to Darlington Memorial Hospital , where she visited the children 's ward , Ms Harman said the Government was starving the NHS of resources while building up the private sector . |
| 14 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 15 | She stammers a kind of apology and wriggles up the bed so her face touches mine . |
| 16 | Some 4610 feet from the side of Gunnerside Gill lies the engine room and hydraulic engine that pumped the mine clear of water and wound up the tubs of lead ore from the levels another 130 feet below the engine room . |
| 17 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | The Meeting Stent themselves with fifteen shillings sterling being the estimate given for Painting the Church yeard Gate of Kilarow and putting up the Globes on the Pillars of the Gate … |
| 19 | Her fingers swim with the water between folds of flesh and take up the rhythm of the light . |
| 20 | Much of the government 's initiative was simply job substitution — the collection of rubbish or cleaning up the environment on the cheap using ACE workers instead of full-time employed council staff . |
| 21 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 22 | And if I said to you those three elements of communication that makes up the hundred percent of it yes ? |
| 23 | The sky thundered , followed quickly by a crack of lightning that lit up the whole sky . |
| 24 | He jotted the three names down on a slip of paper with a gesture of finality and picked up the internal telephone , stabbing out the number for the code-room . |
| 25 | Their new LP ( their best since their first , Psychocandy ) is good for different reasons : because it has the sort of rumbling guitars and invigorating , climbing , bittersweet songs that make you jump out of bed and open up the curtains in the morning . |
| 26 | Certainly , in this book , we shall need to include participants ' beliefs about most of the above parameters , including the place of the current utterance within the sequence of utterances that makes up the discourse . |
| 27 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 28 | Such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of God on earth . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 30 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |