Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 2 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 3 | You have been fortunate enough to build up a reserve of savings over the years , or you may find yourself in receipt of an inheritance . |
| 4 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |
| 5 | Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information . |
| 6 | He went over to pick up a coffee for himself , then came back over and sat down . |
| 7 | It was also planned that wherever possible these local workers should be employed to work with a specific elderly person , and thus to build up a relationship between the two . |
| 8 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 9 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 10 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 11 | Mr Arnold questioned why he had not tried harder to set up a system for receiving such information more swiftly . |
| 12 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 13 | Lachlan , racing out to set up an ambush for his nephew , insisted against his shipmaster 's warning on taking a corner just too neat , and stranded his birlinn just off the Rubha Aird Druimnich . |
| 14 | An STC spokesman explained that the £1.7m sale was made by Mr Walsh to escape the rising cost of the loan he took out to pick up an option on 1 million STC shares in February . |
| 15 | All the same it is useful here to set up a paradigm of the profitability calculation against which to assess the prospects for investment planning , while accepting that there is considerable scope for variation in the actual calculations performed by particular enterprises . |
| 16 | Belfast City Council is hoping 110,000 people will take part in some form of exercise today to notch up a hat-trick of victories in the international fitness challenge . |
| 17 | If you need more information , ring Rape Crisis on 071-837-1600 ( do keep trying if you ca n't get through ) , and if you want to know how to set up a group in your area , write to Incest Survivors in Strength , c/o 34 , Margate Rd . |
| 18 | Figure 9 shows how to set up a tripod on a slope . |
| 19 | Everyone wished to be buried there , or at least to set up a cenotaph on hallowed ground . |
| 20 | Mm about to set up a factory in Sri Lanka to make Morris Minor parts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is important then to draw up a list of specific personal examples which create difficulties for the client . |
| 23 | HOW TO GET UP A HEAD OF ESTEEM . |
| 24 | Not only did they hit the target of 28 for January and February combined , they went on to chalk up a total of 64 ! |
| 25 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 26 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 27 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |