Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent . |
| 2 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 3 | 2 ) I also met Diana England who teaches at IH in Lisbon and who wants to put up a proposal for a Resource Book on Spelling . |
| 4 | God , it 's simple to understand , a child could do it , but old Mike has to put up a resistance to everything . |
| 5 | Once the budget is decided , the retailer needs to draw up a plan of how that money is to be spent . |
| 6 | Er , one thing that tends to use up a lot of memory , is when you insert columns on the left of the spreadsheets . |
| 7 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 8 | It aims to set up a network of high quality and affordable playcare provision meeting the district 's needs , community resources officer Jan Farrow said . |
| 9 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 10 | It aims to make more information about Gerson available , fund research projects , and eventually it hopes to set up a centre for people who want to try it , in combination with psychological counselling , according to Renee Henry . |
| 11 | Chris Willsden took over the Bay Horse , Hurworth , near Darlington on Monday and hopes to set up a display of the pub 's heritage . |
| 12 | Crosby hopes to line up a couple of loan deals before Thursday 's transfer deadline . |
| 13 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important , before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to , to work . |
| 14 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to work , and even then there may be a chance for you actually to discuss the plan with various people as well . |
| 15 | Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’ |
| 16 | This chapter seeks to set up a scheme for language teacher education , a pragmatics of pedagogy , which incorporates these conditions for establishing relevance and provides for the furtherance of proper and profitable relations between theory and practice . |
| 17 | The government proposes to set up a network of secondary schools under direct central control . |
| 18 | The numbers may partly be due to the reputation Switchboard enjoys as a good training ground for employment , mainly in the voluntary social services ( every time the organization manages to build up a core of daytime volunteers , half of them find jobs ) but the largest group of prospective volunteers are past callers , people who , having found the service useful , want to contribute to its continued existence . |
| 19 | Sarah likes to build up a relationship with a woman before she has her baby , using acupuncture to relax her , to treat any pregnancy ailments and to help her recover after the birth . |
| 20 | And he carefully attempts to draw up a balance-sheet of union power , politics and prospects , going far beyond the clichés in which Grant deals . |
| 21 | A solicitor fails to draw up a will within a reasonable time for a client who subsequently dies . |