Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ltd. but returned in 1903 to take up an appointment as chief chemist in their Salamander works in Riga . |
| 2 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 3 | The Sports Council was quick to pick up an interest in this group in the early 1980s when they included people up to the age of 59 in their target groups to encourage increased participation in sporting activities . |
| 4 | He was educated at Wix 's Lane School , Battersea , leaving at the age of fourteen to take up an apprenticeship to a firm of fur dealers for three years . |
| 5 | Thus by fixing a suitable exposure , at which some cells contain logic 1 and the others logic 0 , it is possible to build up an image of the view area . |
| 6 | As a youngster Kylie had proved to be a wizard with a needle — amazing friends by being able to run up an outfit in under two hours . |