Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 3 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 4 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 5 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 6 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 7 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 8 | Twenty years ago , when the firm was of negligible size , Mr Fikret Abdić became its director and proceeded to build it up into a giant enterprise . |
| 9 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |