Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandra Maggs of Fimbra , who is organising the concert , is looking for firms or companies which would be willing either to provide sponsorship or to buy up a number of tickets for staff and guests . |
| 2 | You do n't feel the need to prove yourself , to seek approval , to be careful what you say , or to put up a façade of any kind . |
| 3 | It is therefore far better to plant a single , carefully selected plant in the chosen spot than to build up a mishmash of clashing foliage . |
| 4 | In the afternoon session there was an equally irritable wrangle over a proposal to adopt a law on compliance with the constitution , and to set up a committee for the purpose . |
| 5 | This Association has been instrumental in getting the APA to adopt guidelines on non-sexist language and practices , and to set up an office for Women 's Programmes . |
| 6 | As early as March or April 1330 Edward III was attempting to assert his independence of the regime at court and to build up a body of supporters loyal to him rather than to Mortimer and Isabella . |
| 7 | The brief descriptions of the récit and the first entrée ( shown in their entirety in illus.l ) suggest that the opening numbers of the ballet served not only to introduce the subject of the work , but to set up a mechanism for getting the musicians on stage . |
| 8 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , another solution is to excavate one large area without sections , but to build up a picture of the stratigraphy by recording the relationship of each layer to any adjoining layers . |
| 9 | And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances . |
| 10 | While they were bringing me food , I wondered whether to pick up a handful of the little men and throw them to their death . |
| 11 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |