Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports , |
| 2 | It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 4 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 5 | Do n't miss this ‘ priceless ’ opportunity to clean up with a Commodore — the offer is open while stocks last . |
| 6 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 7 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 8 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |
| 9 | And if that was the case , then the idea for Artemis to move up to a horse must surely have sprung from him . |
| 10 | The Boards preferred the wholesale development of rural districts ( rather than piecemeal individual connections ) since this reduced their costs , and they were generally able to use public meetings and written publicity to bring collective pressure on all potential consumers in a village to sign up for a supply , thus making comprehensive zoned development possible . |
| 11 | Huntworth , Pipe 's only other runner at the meeting , provided Scudamore with his 71st success of the season when making all the running in the Happy Eater Restaurant Handicap Chase to make up for a string of disappointments . |
| 12 | I do n't buy guitars to put up in a cabinet on the wall . |
| 13 | In another experiment , Sissons ( 1970 ) arranged for an actor to dress up in a suit and bowler hat and stand on Paddington station , periodically asking people the way to Hyde Park . |
| 14 | The idea is to invite youth workers to ring up onto a party line on a certain night , giving them the theme for discussion beforehand , linking them up with other people to talk about their work . |
| 15 | The first team to link up in a line with their arms crossed . |
| 16 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |
| 17 | But it would take a pretty exceptional executioner to come up with a vegetable on the spur of the moment . |
| 18 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 19 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 20 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 21 | He 'd come on strong towards the end of his round to pull up within a shot of us . |
| 22 | It 's nice of the Persil people to come up with a washing-up liquid . |
| 23 | It 's a contract which the community is well aware of as the brewer has invited local people to come up with a name for the new pub . |
| 24 | Another resolution would force Mr Urban to come up with a merger proposal involving Pirelli 's tyre business in time for Continental 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 25 | A ‘ MAGNIFICENT ’ equal third out of a filed of 374 , is how our entry fared in the worldwide competition to come up with a solution to re-seal the ruined Chernobyl reactor . |
| 26 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 27 | But it is not an offence to dress up as a policeman unless the uniform is used for personal gain . |
| 28 | ‘ The offer allows Sun-3 and Sun 386i users to move up to a Sparcstation IPX or a Sparcstation 2 , ’ he said , offering either a full system swap or a CPU exchange . |
| 29 | It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again . |
| 30 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |