Example sentences of "[to-vb] up an [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 2 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 3 | Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen . |
| 4 | Will he also allow it to set up an embassy in London ? |
| 5 | Paragraph 29 of the statement of claim alleges that the third and fourth defendants and through them , the fifth defendant were ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the breaches of section 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 in four specified respects , namely , ( i ) in authorising the transfer of a sum of U.S. $250,000 out of an account in the name of the second defendant into which investors ' money had been paid ; ( ii ) in making arrangements during the postal strike in September 1988 for the collection from investors of their cheques and for the distribution of advertisements inviting investment in Euramco ; ( iii ) in paying investors ' cheques into Pantell S.A. 's bank account ; and ( iv ) in attempting to set up an account at Barclays Bank 's Holborn branch for another company , also called Pantell S.A. |
| 6 | Dutta said Guppy also asked him to set up an account in Geneva which he used to channel nearly £500,000 following the fake robbery and insurance payout . |
| 7 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 8 | A policyholder who called at Croydon branch recalled an occasion years earlier when he was summoned to appear before the Board of Directors at London Office because he notified the Society of his intention to take up an appointment in Singapore . |
| 9 | A new deputy head to take up an appointment in January 1982 was earmarked to chair and lead the committee , and on the proposal of the head , members of the committee who were also members of the existing curriculum committee would be responsible for reporting on the project development . |