Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was second nature to weigh up a situation and draw conclusions but this was not just another news story , this was different . |
| 2 | Eventually , in what would then have been interpreted as a generous gesture on the part of the Poor Law authorities , the wife was freed in order to give her a second chance to build up a home . |
| 3 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 4 | In Europe the first attempt to set up a GaAs digital chip production base in under way , inspired by the French company Thompson CSF . |
| 5 | It was the first company to set up a coal depot to supply the capital , displacing with railway coal the hitherto pre-eminent ‘ sea coal ’ . |
| 6 | Heavy seas early in the twentieth century washed up a number of whales along Whitsand Bay . |
| 7 | LENNOX LEWIS last night lined up a world title fight with Norwich-based Herbie Hide as the cat-and-mouse game over the heavyweight championship took a new twist . |
| 8 | The report follows hot on the heels of the move by financier George Soros , the man who is said to have made £1 billion speculating on the collapse of sterling on Black Wednesday , who last month tied up a £500m investment with property giant British Land . |
| 9 | The first-hand reports from former prisoners spurred America to ask the United Nations last week to set up a war crimes commission . |
| 10 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week picked up a plum UK contract when it was chosen to be the as the prime contractor for a contract worth up to £100m for an administrative computing infrastructure for British Army sites worldwide . |
| 11 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 12 | The three bodies last year put up a total of £245,000 of the event 's total cost of more than £300,000 . |