Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to get old Mr Letham in his green coat and brass buttons to struggle up and get the flag of clothes down , but up there , the last name carved in the sandstone right up there on the corner looking down over Glasgow , was in 1910 . |
| 2 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 3 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 4 | You know y y y y you 're a poor peasant and the Party 's coming in in conditions of civil war and we say right erm we 've got ta get land reform and the land reform process is being done , not by the Party coming in and imposing it , it is very much done by the Party encouraging and enabling the peasants to , to take the moves themselves , to stand up and begin the criticism . |
| 5 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 6 | Pitt remembers that as a little boy attending church he 'd sit cowering in the pew , afraid the preacher would ask him to come up and give the benediction . |
| 7 | ‘ This now brings me to the moment when I have immense pleasure in asking Douglas Irwin to come up and receive the watch worn by his father on that fateful night nearly fifty years ago . |
| 8 | Or what about your mum , Ella , think she might like to come up and join the hen party ? ’ |
| 9 | It would be far better , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said , to conclude association agreements with those countries and to help them in every way to catch up and to adopt the principles of a single free market rather than trying to integrate them within new political structures . |
| 10 | As more energy is put into the hammer without a check ( in other words , as the player plays more loudly ) a critical point will be reached at which the hammer retains enough energy after hitting the string to bounce up and hit the string again . |
| 11 | Bishop West arrived back in Rangoon on 9th July to find that army chaplains and volunteer workers from the forces were hard at work to clean up and restore the cathedral , which had been used throughout the occupation as a factory for sauce and saki . |
| 12 | Speaking at a conference on the protection of coastlines in Paris , she spoke of the " moral injunction " to clean up and protect the environment . |
| 13 | Joint compensation schemes use funds collected through charges and contributions to clean up or restore the environment . |
| 14 | I always like to take my time when I go fishing , to tackle up and bait the swim in a relaxed , easy-going manner . |
| 15 | Worse still , she longed to reach up and smooth the ruffled disorder caused by his impatient gesture . |
| 16 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 17 | The spoil above the hole usually caves in and you must then use the hook end of the long-spade to pick up and retrieve the ferret 's line . |
| 18 | There needs to be a concerted and sustained campaign to open up and maintain the network , and CCW can , and is , doing much to make this happen . |
| 19 | Barry Overton was appointed to set up and head the plastics environmental affairs group with Gordon Head and Sue Ward in charge of polymers [ Melinar PET and Propathene PP ] and Bob Dye in control of PET and PP film . |
| 20 | When Nathan ordered her to set up and engage the auto-helm she tried , desperately searching a mind that had gone totally blank for the sequence which would ensure that the boat remained on course . |
| 21 | Crawford Allan was brought in from RBIS Head Office to be Director , Operations ; David Miller moved from Aberdeen Office to become Manager , Schemes Unit ; and Alex Graham and Bob Aitken left Edinburgh Centre — Alex to become Manager , Corporate Unit and Bob to set up and manage the Training Department . |
| 22 | Most modern , written , constitutions seek not merely to set up and define the main organs of the state and to distribute public power amongst them , but also to state a range of constitutional guarantees for the subject , frequently limiting the power of organs of the state to this extent . |
| 23 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 24 | The only hope we 've got is to split up and leave the quarry in little groups , once we get back . |
| 25 | She longed to march up and grab the glass and tip the contents , newt and all , over the Trunchbull 's head . |
| 26 | Indeed , just as with a demonstrative , so with the definite description in ( 18 ) , the addressee is invited to look up and identify the referent . |
| 27 | Maxim wished he had made the call himself even if George had had to look up and dial the number for him . |
| 28 | This enables anyone to look up and inspect the patent specification to determine its scope . |
| 29 | Readers interested in doing experiments involving ultrasonics can buy the basic matching transmitters and receivers quite cheaply but they will need to look up or develop the circuits needed to make them work . |
| 30 | They also manage to muddle up or confuse the issue of which Alice is speaking on , for example , |