Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 2 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 3 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 5 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 6 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 7 | It will coordinate scientific and technical research , prepare advice on the elimination of ozone-destroying substances , and build up a database on the production , consumption , use , export and import of such substances . |
| 8 | I said to Bet I said they ought to write out a cheque on the end . |
| 9 | They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way . |
| 10 | Initially , he could n't see the body , and then he noticed the tell-tale blanket draped over a shape on the floor . |
| 11 | They need it to finance new projects and which they ultimately hope those projects will bring in a profit on the capital employed . |
| 12 | It came over a treat on the radio transmitter when I played it back … ’ |
| 13 | The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work . |
| 14 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 15 | When they got there , Maria was sitting on the piano stool in the parlour , picking out a song on the keys and trying to sing along with her halting one finger accompaniment , ‘ Jol-ly Go-od Luck to the Gi-rl Who Lo-ves a Sol-dier ’ . |
| 16 | Part of 5 UDR cordon around a bomb on the railway link between Northern Ireland and Eire . |
| 17 | Taylor made a round 100 , shrugging off a blow on the chin from a Srinath bouncer after a caught-behind appeal had been turned down . |
| 18 | The group had met on Oct. 15 and had drawn up a Report on the Commonwealth in the 1990s — a synthesis of an initial Malaysian document and of a more forceful British-drafted version proposing new Commonwealth policies favouring the promotion of democracy and human rights , and stressing the need for an independent judiciary . |
| 19 | And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on . |
| 20 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 21 | We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself . |
| 22 | ‘ Others make up a bed on the sofa each night . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm building up an exposé on the methods they use , how they victimize people all over the world . |
| 24 | Brackenbury failed to put in an appearance on the following day . |
| 25 | General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape … |
| 26 | The Law Societies ' of England and Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have funded a team of researchers led by lecturer Dr Julian Lonbay , to draw up a report on the professional qualifications and training of lawyers , in order to help them determine how to implement the EEC Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration , which comes into force on 4 January 1991 . |
| 27 | Mr Patten even mused that the Conservative Party might set up a think-tank on the lines of Germany 's Konrad Adenauer Stiftung , the research arm of the governing Christian Democrats . |
| 28 | According to Cowles , the plan was that Stirling and his crew would set up an ambush on the road , which intelligence had informed him was being used by a stream of enemy traffic . |
| 29 | I thought I heard a thankless boy raising his voice against those that clothed him and suckled him and spent out a fortune on the making of him . |
| 30 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |