Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] up " in BNC.

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1 We are committed to legislating as soon as possible on a new scheme to protect hedgerows and to notify the intention to grub up .
2 Well organised folks can book a permit to camp up to a year in advance , but we managed to get in despite having no permit when we arrived .
3 Proposal to Set up a Cook-chill System
4 This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 .
5 Indulging in year-end spending sprees to farce up next year 's budgeted expenditure .
6 It would be a good place to hole up in . ’
7 If it 's a river we can find a place to hole up and get some rest .
8 The Perfect Place To Tie Up All Your Berthing Arrangements
9 I 'll put Aline straight and try and get Tom to belt up about it when amongst the boys .
10 In addition to using casual workers to man up for " events " , we also found cases of organisations bringing them in to cope with peaks in what might be termed their " more continuous " activities .
11 Ten-thirty to three she 's at The World Turned Inside Out , daring the clientele to muck up her clean floor .
12 Mr to round up and then we have coffee .
13 Immediately refrigerate to allow the coating to firm up — about 30min .
14 Got all this stuff to type up and I 'd forgotten my typewriter .
15 Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road .
16 Some Rabbit , from a handy six-metre start , should quickly escape his rivals in tonight 's 540 handicap to bolt up .
17 They wo n't take a slightest bit of notice … and will use the paper to role up a joint .
18 Put it in the fridge to firm up for 2–3 hours and then remove and leave to set overnight : if you chill everything except the aspic in the freezer beforehand , the terrine will set in half an hour .
19 Well , those traffic lights on the Stratfield Break 's definitely giving us problems again this evening , of course , there 's road works going on there , traffic is still virtually bumper to bumper up there , very , very slow indeed .
20 During the days that followed our plans to backpack up into the hills had to be curtailed because of the weather , but to compensate there was the pleasure of watching Nathan explore the Arctic .
21 It should n't take more than an hour to type up .
22 The necessity to fell up to fifty trees to carry out this development is called into question .
23 Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance .
24 It makes sense to gear up at the car — as the descent leads logically back to this point .
25 All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’
26 This allowed us to explore the process of secondment more generally , from first approach to application up to the point of departure some six to 23 months later .
27 Halliday has the vision to size up virtually any position in the backs .
28 TrueEffects for Windows allows you to go several steps further in the effort to jazz up your documents .
29 An elevator trim that rotates in a different plane to nose up , nose down is a revolting arrangement and when , many years ago , the College of Air Training at Hamble ordered a considerable number of Apaches they insisted on having the trim wheels between the two front seats where they could work in a logical fashion .
30 Aircraft are late and the company has ’ borrowed ’ more than 600 workers from Lockheed to catch up .
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