Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope people at the back can hear , erm , we obviously took up action on the resolution passed last year , in two or three different ways . |
| 2 | To be honest , empty barrels just take up space on the |
| 3 | The dragons were released whereon the red dragon killed the white and eventually took up residence on the Welsh flag . |
| 4 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 5 | Overall if you look at the balance sheet , it still appears quite healthy , erm , nevertheless , I must point out that the balance sheet is composed largely of funds with specific purposes , and these specific purposes do not include simply propping up deficits on the mainstream activities . |
| 6 | Johnny Come Lately , the man to whom the Home Office refused a work permit in 1984 , was now fast making up ground on the inside . |
| 7 | Well , I wrote out births , deaths , marriage certificates , and er then measured up houses on the rating side , erm worked them out for evaluations . |
| 8 | Now we never set up questions on the show — we 'll discuss areas that we might go into , but we never say , ‘ You say this to me , and then I 'll say that to you ’ , it just does n't work like that . |