Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an independent statutory body , which can give you advice and may take up your enquiry with Royal Mail Parcelforce . |
| 2 | It is an independent statutory body , which can give you advice and may take up your enquiry with Royal Mail . |
| 3 | Fortunately , from the point of view of Shirinskii-Shikhmatov , the newly appointed Curator of Moscow University was " a typical Nicholaevan general , the limited and ignorant V. I. Nazimov " , who took the view that students ought not to go into cafés to read papers and ought to do up their jackets and wear three-cornered hats and swords . |
| 4 | She did n't see Simone very often , but they had known each other from their schooldays and could pick up their friendship without the slightest difficulty . |
| 5 | CW reported that Mr S Marshall had been appointed , and would take up his post on 1st July . |
| 6 | Hosanna could see it too , and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window . |
| 7 | An increase in regional aid would benefit other countries far more than us and would drive up our net contribution to the budget . |
| 8 | He succeeds Jocelyn Stevens , who turned down a fresh contract , and will pick up his duties with a five-year tenure on 1 August . |
| 9 | Mr. Benson , who is married with a two-year-old son , lives near Havant and will take up his post at the end of April . |
| 10 | Nick James has been appointed to the newly created post of General Manager and Secretary of the St Andrews Links Trust and will take up his position on January 1 1993 . |
| 11 | In another media appointment , David Williams has been appointed editor of BBC Wales ' evening news programme ‘ Wales Today , ’ and will take up his new job in February next year . |
| 12 | Apparently they 've got this tiny fish which is attracted by the heat or whatever and can swim up your pee as you 're peeing . |
| 13 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 14 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 15 | Men who were renowned working-class leaders but would beat up their wives if they got in late from one of our meetings . |
| 16 | Ron Birch , the protest leader , said they would accept the fence for the time being but would step up their campaign to protect the trees from a surprise attack by council workmen . |
| 17 | It is , of course , easier to start a new business , whether co-operative or conventional in organisation , which does not demand the investment at the outset of large sums but can build up its capital assets from a modest beginning . |