Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun sg] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick is to use the person 's name to conjure up a picture in your mind . |
| 2 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 3 | County rang the changes desperately , sending on Slawson for Lund in an attempt to pep up an attack in which Farina , the striker on loan from Bari , made a rather featureless full debut . |
| 4 | France and Italy have agreed to set up a sanctuary in which dolphins will be protected from drift-net fishing . |
| 5 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 6 | For the classical foundationalist programme of starting from one 's own case and moving outwards suffers from all the radical defects which face the solipsist 's attempt to set up a language in which to describe the experiences which form his subject matter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Four Romanians who are planning to set up a bakery in their own country have travelled to Gloucestershire to learn how to make the finest bread and cakes . |
| 10 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 11 | There are plans to set up a fund in her name to assist up and coming wildlife film-makers . |
| 12 | Our transsexual flatmate was one of the main organisers of the campaign , and we were all active supporters — not least by paying the rent for LAMBDA to set up an office in our squat . |
| 13 | In practice , people are very reluctant to give up a theory in which they have invested a lot of time and effort . |
| 14 | She hated being the centre of attention , but at least it would serve to stir up an interest in her business . |
| 15 | ( The answer is , yes , it does because it helps the receiver to move up a scale in their involvement level . ) |