Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 2 | A good technique is to have a flip chart or white board , divide it with a line down the middle and ask someone to write up the arguments for and against . |
| 3 | For a tenner , I snapped up a dinner-jacket for an office party , and gave it back afterwards . |
| 4 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 5 | Eight matches gone … won 3 lost five … four matches to go … 2 at home … 2 away … 2 wins needed to avoid relegation … they ’ re the facts and figures which sum up the season for the Cherry and Whites … |
| 6 | A mistake by Peacock let in Atkinson for the goal which wrapped up the points for Villa . |
| 7 | O K , you pick up a bonus for that , anybody else on the team come up with something positive about unit linking that 'll make me say , yes , I like this one ? |
| 8 | She made up a poem for the diamond diamond jubilee . |
| 9 | In the morning , she made up a cot for Oreste , placing on the pillow a small felt rabbit Pilade had once loved . |
| 10 | In the writing of inspection reports it will be essential to express findings in a positive manner and in a language and style that address the concerns of the many non-specialists who make up the audience for the reports . |
| 11 | It is conventional wisdom among advice agencies , local authorities and fuel boards that it 's the women who pick up the tab for men 's mismanagement . |
| 12 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 13 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 14 | It is doubtful if you look up the word for baggage retrieval , and then look for a sign with those words . |
| 15 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 16 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 17 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 18 | they , they actually assign there 's er , there 's er a computer system which er allows you to build up the rates for doing work . |
| 19 | On her bedpost , it was said , she notched up a mark for every new lover . |
| 20 | She kept up the palazzo for twenty years — two decades . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Shah , who put up the money for the school , is a Wimbledon Dharjee . |
| 22 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 23 | She held up the lanthorn for a better look . |
| 24 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 25 | We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’ |
| 26 | One adds up the probabilities for all the particle histories with certain properties , such as passing through certain points at certain times . |
| 27 | ‘ Whoever put up the money for the scheme has made a fortune . |
| 28 | I was an ardent admirer and supporter of MacBrayne 's buses : they opened up the north-west for me . |
| 29 | They followed up the cases for 12 months to discover how the accident had affected their general mental state , travel anxiety and their attitude to driving or being a passenger . |
| 30 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |