Example sentences of "[verb] up a meeting " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 2 | He told Waite he had contact with Islamic Jihad and offered to set up a meeting . |
| 3 | THAILAND 'S James Wattana booked his quarter-final place in the Royal Liver Assurance UK snooker Championship yesterday with a 9–1 win over Mike Hallett at Preston to set up a meeting with Jimmy White today . |
| 4 | A typical occasion was when Thornton used his contacts to set up a meeting between the paper and the trade-union-sponsored Unity Bank to borrow £10,000 to keep things going for now , and to test the water for the millions of pounds that would be needed in the future . |
| 5 | B. Chrystal will be asked to set up a meeting under the auspices of the Village Association in connection with the noise and vandalism so prevalent around the school annexe , village hall , public part etc . |
| 6 | In view of the limited time available before the scheduled date for Advance Data Capture for Council Tax purposes I will ask my secretary to set up a meeting to discuss this document and Council Tax structures and staffing levels in a couple of weeks time . |
| 7 | There he was on television this week , whipping up a meeting of left-wing students into a frenzy with his oratory : ‘ There are new forces in our society — new forces , new loyalties , new ideas not yet articulated — which may yet come to our rescue . |
| 8 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 9 | Salman Rushdie followed up a meeting with prominent Muslims on Christmas Eve by announcing his conversion to Islam . |
| 10 | He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’ |
| 11 | Yet he it was who had set up a meeting with ‘ Miguelito ’ quite deliberately , knowing that he was going to dupe her into going . |
| 12 | As a result , he had set up a meeting of regional engineers , himself , and the deputy inspector of railways . |
| 13 | At Glasgow , where there was a full-scale riot when police broke up a meeting of 50,000 people at Glasgow Green , shops were ransacked and the police were bombarded with missiles by tenement dwellers . |
| 14 | He 's threatening to fly back to Paris this evening unless he can fix up a meeting with you . ’ |
| 15 | My friend Harry ( a retired driver ) fixed up a meeting at a local pub and we were able to talk and discuss the strange happenings . |
| 16 | Adela fixed up a meeting between the king and archbishop , and in a few days everything was arranged . |
| 17 | There is not enough time to meet even short-term demands for preparation , marking , report-writing , sorting out pupils ' disputes and clearing up heat-of-the-moment misunderstandings with colleagues , let alone to invest in the longer-term necessities of clearing the backlog of paperwork , replying to letters , ordering supplies , planning schemes of work , reorganizing last year 's course , thinking about what your tutor group can contribute to the fourth year assembly , setting up a meeting with the educational psychologist about Jessica , and spending some time with the word processor manual . |