Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joint compensation schemes use funds collected through charges and contributions to clean up or restore the environment . |
| 2 | ‘ They ’ do n't like the food , ‘ they ’ wet their beds , ‘ they ’ get in the way when staff are trying to tidy up or lay the table . |
| 3 | So you 've got you 've got things which set up or stimulate the behaviour or the decision . |
| 4 | The physical process of tendon repair is now well documented and efforts are being made to find drugs which speed up or modify the repair process . |
| 5 | Readers interested in doing experiments involving ultrasonics can buy the basic matching transmitters and receivers quite cheaply but they will need to look up or develop the circuits needed to make them work . |
| 6 | They also manage to muddle up or confuse the issue of which Alice is speaking on , for example , |
| 7 | Lastly , the Government was obviously concerned about the way the press and radio could , by their manner of reporting , either build up or damage the reputations of political figures . |
| 8 | With this system ( see table below ) 29 reps will be performed , but it is the way they are split up that promotes the development of greater strength . |
| 9 | It was , however , also a period when complete adult suffrage was achieved , and in which a political consensus was built up that enabled the Labour Party to establish itself alongside the older parties , so that an element of working-class power developed without turning into a revolutionary force . |
| 10 | This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time . |
| 11 | This will not benefit the buyer if all the shares are taken up when the transferor is compelled to make a pre-emptive offer , but it does not follow that all of them will be taken up and , if not , the transferee has a better claim to those shares not taken up than has the transferor . |
| 12 | Well what , what are you gon na do , go up and ask the bloke oh can you buy me a cake ? |
| 13 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 14 | Bishop West arrived back in Rangoon on 9th July to find that army chaplains and volunteer workers from the forces were hard at work to clean up and restore the cathedral , which had been used throughout the occupation as a factory for sauce and saki . |
| 15 | Benny was laughing to cheer them up and raise the mood again . |
| 16 | Then Frank arrived one weekend with a team of his workmates to wire the place up and install the plugs and light fittings . |
| 17 | An aerial on the distant receiver then picks them up and converts the information firstly into electrical signals then into sound which is reproduced by the loudspeaker . |
| 18 | I think I , get up and go the thing |
| 19 | Instead , she sat up and looked the big rascal right in the eye . |
| 20 | She says a massage will help loosen you up and get the blood flowing normally and warm up those aching muscles . |
| 21 | Go up and get the anchor |
| 22 | so that 's how it works , open it up and get the mast . |
| 23 | Go up and get the old and see if . |
| 24 | Go up and get the uhum Index catalogue and see if that 's got any more in it . |
| 25 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 26 | Pascoe got up and checked the lock on the door . |
| 27 | She got up and checked the wardrobes , and her bemusement became sheer bewilderment . |
| 28 | I saw Sam sit up and ease the pressure , and copied him immediately , none too soon for my taxed muscles and speed-starved lungs . |
| 29 | This enables anyone to look up and inspect the patent specification to determine its scope . |
| 30 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |