Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FATHER whose son was killed in a road accident has helped set up a support network in the North West for the families of other victims . |
| 2 | The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has proposed setting up a system by which " permits to pollute " with sulphur dioxide ( SO2 ) could be traded among industrial plants . |
| 3 | Since replacing the former prime minister , Bob Hawke , in an inter-party challenge 14 months ago , Mr Keating has pledged to set up a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic , with an Australian head of state , by 2001 . |
| 4 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 5 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 6 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 7 | Before she 'd begun to swing up a knee into his groin he jerked her towards him . |
| 8 | The cash will be used to help set up a family action centre on the estate and give young people the opportunity to improve their future . |
| 9 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 10 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 11 | The hospital would have to make choices : ‘ We are going to have to weigh up a hip replacement against a breast carcinoma . ’ |
| 12 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 13 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 14 | seems to have come up a bit . |
| 15 | Woodland , a pond and a meadow form the basis of the haven on land given by landlord Helical Bar after the company was asked to help set up a nature park . |
| 16 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 17 | The males do like to set up a territory , and minor skirmishes can break out between them if the tank is not large enough to allow two or three separate domains . |
| 18 | The usual routine for the Stone family was that Chrissie , and two other mothers , alternated coming to pick up a total of five children every day . |
| 19 | Somehow the words ‘ dietary fibre ’ do tend to conjure up an image of being put out to graze on food that has all the comfort and flavour of that consumed by a sheep or a cow . |
| 20 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 21 | ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada . |
| 23 | On the rare occasions when the Indian does seek to build up a reserve for himself , he squanders it at once . |
| 24 | We 've decided to set up a campaign to put pressure on the Government and we need someone to run the office . |
| 25 | Erm you 've got to put up a show |
| 26 | And we 've got to pick up a mare that Ibn Fayoud 's bought out there . |
| 27 | Now going back to administration , I 'd wade through , and it might say that the policy 's being delivered , so I 've got to set up a policy delivery call . |
| 28 | We 've also got to implement the famous Community Care Act , which implies that we 've got to set up an inspection unit of all our own services . |
| 29 | Well so you 've got to get up a ladder to get at it . |
| 30 | ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . ) |