Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | There is an optional second year which students can apply for which ‘ joins up ’ with the two-year diploma course . |
| 17 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 18 | An Orc army under Gorfang Rotgut besieges Barak Varr and later joins up with Orc and Goblin tribes led by Morglum Necksnapper to attack Karak Azul . |
| 19 | The Way actually joins up with the Cotswold Way at this point if you fancy a more epic walk . |
| 20 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 21 | The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle . |
| 22 | It joins up again . |
| 23 | Then it all joins up again and goes back in , goes along here , so everything that goes down there , the ten amps goes through this one again , and back into the battery . |
| 24 | Rubber or foam backings provide resilience and firmness underfoot but tend to push carpet joins up making them prone to wear . |
| 25 | It joins up with the Mill Avon . ’ |
| 26 | Bacardi joins up with Grant |
| 27 | Yeah and then it joins up together does n't it ? |
| 28 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month . |