stoke up

Or maybe they were stoking up for what was to come.

I only meant that at least we'd have been stoked up properly.

If silence and secrecy can stoke up interest, it has.

You are basically trying to stoke up a fear of the unknown.

Might as well stoke up for the long night.

Then I'd use my buyers to stoke up the process - have one or two bigger companies involved.

I am going out to stoke up the barbeque now.

But Labour did more than anything to stoke up the housing market.

He let himself in, stoked up the fire, and began to heat the porridge.

Jackie had stoked up the fire, opened the door and looked out upon an arctic world.

She collected her tools, stoked up the fire, settled down to work.

The sky was already a blaze of light, and the air stoking up rapidly.

We don't need to have the dragons stoked up or anything, he said.

"Could you stoke up this fire a little first?"

It seemed to me like someone had been lighting fire, keeping the anger level stoked up.

Now they can only hope somebody stokes up the meteorological furnace.

Mary stoked up the fire and boiled a kettle of water.

"I'll have to stoke up the fire pretty soon."

She offered breakfast, but the sheriff stoked up a cigarette instead.

I stoked up a stick in my Studebaker and stood on the gas.

It tasted better than the first one had and it stoked up the fire.

The EU must not stoke up the fight for the blue gold.

Then I stoked up the flickering fires of life within my soul, and chose.

However, it's not just the media but one of his own councillors who has stoked up this latest debate.

The men had been quick to stoke up a fire for the branding irons.