Example sentences of "[vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , it seemed that the antics of marine woodworms in the piling of Barmouth 's 115 span timber bridge would rob the Cambrian coast of its railway , but BR surprisingly stumped up £500,000 for short-term repairs , and , after a seven-month closure , the line was back in business . |
| 2 | Having stumped up £250 to help sponsor a general practitioners ' management meeting in Nottingham , the Royal Bank of Scotland saw fit to leave it at that . |
| 3 | To help guarantee the new loans , the World Bank , the IMF and Japan 's government stumped up $3.9 billion of new money . |
| 4 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 5 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 6 | Since Saddam Hussein drained Kuwait 's oil reserves into the Gulf the Saudis , to their credit , have stumped up $60 million . |
| 7 | He has also stumped up some of the cash ( together they contributed 30 per cent of the total package , the rest was provided by banks ) . |
| 8 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 9 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 10 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 11 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 12 | City firms have already stumped up more than £300 million for Taurus and are in no mood to inject any more cash into a replacement . |
| 13 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 14 | The English visitors dominated up front with their 6ft 6in lock , Derwyn Jones , cleaning up at the lineout . |
| 15 | They 've also completed a 15 day tour of the North with the Stan Barker Trio and had honed up playing together . |
| 16 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 17 | On the negative side it is difficult to see the advantage for Bergen Bank , which is getting mixed up with one of the most troublesome members of the already unfortunate Norwegian banking sector , where 1989 loss estimates of NKr1.6bn have been announced . |
| 18 | I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month . |
| 19 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 20 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 21 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 22 | Did he get his acts mixed up , I wonder ? |
| 23 | Did he get his acts mixed up , I wonder ? |
| 24 | Prince is now demanding listeners as mixed up and variegated inside as himself , and is finding that there are n't that many around . |
| 25 | These features were then mixed up with features from the local cottages of Surrey and Sussex — the tiled roof , the tile-hung wall and the gable . |
| 26 | David Bowie : ‘ I ran into a very strange type of paranoid person when I was doing ‘ Aladdin Sane ’ very mixed up people , and I got very upset . |
| 27 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 28 | Somehow , she had let herself get mixed up . |
| 29 | ‘ That Simon had her all mixed up . |
| 30 | If Joshua 6 represents God as mixed up in humanity 's games of power and violence in a way that is denied by the Crucified God of the Gospels , 1 Samuel 4–6 , in both its tragedy and its comedy , would declare his refusal to play along with us on our terms , and his insistence on doing his own thing . |