Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 2 | R. W. Blake in the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia , who made the discovery , has even come up with a name for the strategy . |
| 3 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 6 | He has n't got much time left to come up with a challenge for 1992 . |
| 7 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 8 | Had Pardy , in a nutshell , just been carried away and thoughtless — which might result in a lesser charge — or had he set out to harm Harriet with such deadly results that this might even finish up as a trial for manslaughter ? |
| 9 | And this particular night she went into the yard , the yard door was shut , she went into the yard and was standing , looking at the moon — when the ticket lad came up with a ticket for me father . |
| 10 | In the case of the Stewartfield development , Glasgow-based architect Geoffrey Reid came up with a design for a building , which , while functioning as a supermarket , retained a considerable amount of character , using traditional Scottish building materials . |
| 11 | Several years ago a small group of people sat down to consider this problem and , after a great deal of discussion and argument , came up with a six-point-plan for new legislation with the special needs of Wales in mind ( although they are also relevant to other countries inside and outside the UK ) . |
| 12 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 13 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 14 | She came up with a routine for visiting the tables , and even managed to empty a few ashtrays . |
| 15 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 16 | There was no local version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum ( Rights of Individuals ) , the eleventh-century code of legal and rural practices drawn up as a guide for the country as a whole . |
| 17 | The amendments , drawn up by a Commission for Constitutional Amendment ( CCA ) headed by Vo Chi Cong , President of the Council of State , would be placed before the Assembly at its next session in December . |
| 18 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 19 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 20 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 21 | Fortunately , one or two civil servants realise that the government could build up trouble if it allows a whole generation to grow up with a dislike for nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | And the only way you can be born again is by looking to me , cos I 'm gon na be raised up on a cross for your salvation . |
| 23 | Dent followed up with a request for Barnet to meet the 11am deadline an hour before the League 's annual meeting at Walsall . |
| 24 | Somerset seamer Neil Mallender was called up as a standby for England in New Zealand . |
| 25 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 26 | I was trussed up like a chicken for roasting . |
| 27 | He was mercilessly tortured , blindfolded and trussed up in a cupboard for four months , but he refused to break . |
| 28 | They wasted no time in coming up with a replacement for another New Zealander , Murray Kidd , who guided them to All Ireland League honours in 1992 . |
| 29 | A National Integration Council would be set up as a forum for discussions on these issues . |
| 30 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |