Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 3 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 4 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 5 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 6 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 7 | The Moon was so angry with the hare 's evasions that she picked up a hatchet to chop off his head , but missed her aim and cut the hare on the mouth . |
| 8 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 9 | This is analogous to a script language or batch file , in that you set up a file transfer transaction which can be repeated every day , short-cutting the need to highlight and copy individual files . |
| 10 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 11 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 12 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 13 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 14 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 15 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 16 | The holes are formed by transferring one stitch to the next needle to the right or left , leaving the empty needle in working position so that it picks up a stitch on the following row . |
| 17 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 18 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 19 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 20 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 21 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 22 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 23 | Zacchaeus knew he would n't get a very good look at Jesus because he was too short to see over the heads of the crowd , so he shinned up a tree . |
| 24 | In the spring of 1940 John Avison and I rounded up a group of like-minded radio people with the object of renting a large house as far away as possible from downtown Vancouver . |
| 25 | And I picked up a pack of contraceptives . |
| 26 | And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it . |
| 27 | ‘ Steve and I teamed up a while back . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 29 | Yes and there If I If I pull up a bit and back out there . |
| 30 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |