Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a solicitor can become an adviser and mentor to clients and can help set up or expand small businesses , draft a complex will , or draw up different types of contracts . |
| 2 | If there are procedures that need improvement , one reaction of the committee to a JMU report may be to ask the practice to undertake to set up or to maintain certain procedures or to change other specific arrangements . |
| 3 | They both started throwing up and seeing flashing lights ! |
| 4 | When we all went to the pub and some of them went up and got non-alcoholic drinks and that , and they all said they could n't go into a pub and do that and they done it , no problem . |
| 5 | As already noted , video lights are great consumers of electric power : for every 1000 watts of light a current of just over 4 amps at 240 volts ( 9 amps at 110 volts ) is required , so safe working practices are paramount when you are setting up and using high-power lamps . |
| 6 | The use of internal coordinates combined with helicoidal parameters which position each nucleotide within a nucleic acid fragment , reduce the number of variables representing the molecule and thus speed up and facilitate conformational searches . |
| 7 | Litigants should benefit from changes recommended by the Civil Justice Review to speed up and simplify civil cases . |
| 8 | Article 7 appears to give the right to consumer groups or organisations to take action against organisations of suppliers or sellers who draw up and use standard terms and conditions which contain unfair terms . |
| 9 | In The Alexandria Quartet ( 1957 — 60 ) , for example , Lawrence Durrell 's narrator Darley sets up and discusses aesthetic paradoxes , including ones affecting the text in which he figures , quite often enough to justify Durrell 's view that , as a whole , ‘ the novel is only half secretly about art , the great subject of modern artists ’ ( in Cowley 1963 : 231 ) . |
| 10 | Moreover , since their condition limits their ability to pick up and assimilate new words and to understand the subtleties of language , the problem becomes greater as more specialised vocabulary and abstract terms are introduced . |
| 11 | ‘ Your hair , ’ she said , ‘ your hair , ’ and reached up and took sliding handfuls of it , and the kiss changed , became the kiss of before . |
| 12 | The RSPCA want Magistrates to toughen up and ban cruel owners for a minimum of 5 years , if not more , to prevent them from harming animals like the unfortunate Max again . |
| 13 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 14 | Eyvør woke up and made food-begging noises , so the Birdman finished his story and cut up some more strips of herring which he fed to the little bird . |
| 15 | Quite clearly the reason that people have been asked to come along this evening and have come along this evening is to put there points of view about how the see the theatre in the future what is programme facilities are the things that are n't happening here they feel should be happening here that 's what it 's for not here to serve any purpose for individuals to get up and make personal cuts on people or say what happen on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon cos I |
| 16 | Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in ? |
| 17 | Such waves pile water up and initiate longshore currents . |
| 18 | He 'd come down and try to get us to translate his prayers into English , or would turn up and recite Koranic verses he 'd half translated with Mahmoud or one of the other English-speakers . |
| 19 | You measure those up and make little templates to scale to represent them . |
| 20 | You will move poor children from here to there ’ and he lifted up and evacuated imaginary children from one side of his blotting pad to the other . |
| 21 | ‘ But there are still all these fans of our first record — especially on the continent , they 're really frank here — who come right up and say funny things like ( in a thick Scandinavian accent ) ‘ T'was not superior , but was OK ’ and ‘ So much lovey pop — ridiculous ’ . |
| 22 | I had not worked before as a waitress so I ended up with most of the easy jobs like washing up and cleaning left overs from the plates ! |
| 23 | Their conversations with the locals was verging on the insulting , and they had , on several occasions , picked up and quaffed other men 's beer , by design , but feigning error . |
| 24 | ‘ In my judgment it does not require the constable making the request of the requirement to weigh up and balance competing considerations . |
| 25 | The first is the kind of trainee we require at the Special Executive , a world-wide expert in breaking up and reassembling old bonds . |
| 26 | It is valuable to collect information from the family network , and from involved professionals , as by weighing up and balancing different contributions it is possible to build up a picture of recent events to complete an assessment . |
| 27 | The settlement pit in a sand and gravel works was well stirred up and discharging large amounts of solids into the river . |
| 28 | She , and all the other residents with the courage to stand up and defend decent values on behalf of their families and communities , deserve more support than they are receiving from the Government . |
| 29 | For ICI Catalysts and Technology Licensing [ C&TL ] can offer services that not only speed up and enhance chemical processes but also provide countries with the ability to build highly efficient industrial plants that play a key part in enhancing food production . |
| 30 | He has signed an agreement that allows the United Nations to set up and administer humanitarian centres all over his country . |