Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We expect to be the McDonald 's of videotex , opening up franchises around the country , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 2 | Opening up hearings to the public would require a byelaw change , but the PCD has already implemented the move to more informative reporting . |
| 3 | It is about opening up ideas about the range of choices which could and should be available to them . |
| 4 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 5 | The family drew up plans for the four-bedroom house after their previous home on the same site in the village of Meopham , Kent , was destroyed by fire . |
| 6 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 7 | Their hosts drew up chairs on the other ; the one who was apparently the senior of the two said , ‘ Julia , I think we could manage some more coffee … ’ |
| 8 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 9 | This was a time when Haslam learned the subtle art of keeping up appearances despite the fact that the world seemed to be collapsing all around him . |
| 10 | Culturally , the most militant gangs who beat up immigrants in the name of the nation belong to the international youth culture and reflect its modes and fashions , jeans , punk-rock , junk food and all . |
| 11 | Small boats came out to the liner , some bearing vendors of coconuts and bananas , others containing friends and relatives who shouted up names to the rail . |
| 12 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 13 | The reader interprets this as " the echo died away " , but is aware that the sound has conjured up birds for the people . |
| 14 | They are the Brockman River 1990 Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon and the 1991 Chardonnay , products of the Chittering Estate Winemaker Steve Scapera learned his art in California and last year built up exports to the American market to 41 million . |
| 15 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 16 | All we can say is that girls do as well as boys at the mathematical skills which primary teachers value , such as computation , but that the APU surveys , and the analysis of other researchers such as Hilary Shuard ( 1986 ) , have picked up differences in the performance of girls and boys which mathematics educators regard as significant . |
| 17 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 18 | WISH you were here can so easily become ‘ wish we 'd never gone ’ when you arrive home to find that burglars have emptied the tool shed , the pipes have burst and the dog has picked up fleas in the kennels . |
| 19 | I learned the basics of welding at college and have picked up tips from the experts while working on my scrap metal cows at Beamish Tram Shed and a pipe factory in Hebburn on Tyneside . |
| 20 | The press quickly picked up rumours of the project and upset Lutyens with garbled and inaccurate descriptions : ‘ Such a bore , ’ he wrote to his wife . |
| 21 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 22 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 23 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 24 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 25 | They stared in surprise and she said in a tired voice , ‘ Oh it does n't matter , I suppose , not the old skull , but he 's run me ragged just lately , picking up things round the house and putting them down where they should n't be . |
| 26 | The carrying of hand coils is only appropriate on snow arêtes ( as explained above ) , or on rock ridges of uneven difficulty , where party speed is increased by members picking up coils on the easy sections . |
| 27 | As the Oliver Sachs figure , he was awkward , introverted , Chaplinesque and observant , picking up clues on the mental state of his patients , which had been overlooked by worldlier colleagues . |
| 28 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 29 | So if you 're picking up children from the Primary School in Lane Derby , there 's cable-laying going on in Street , Lane and Street . |
| 30 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |