Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 2 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 3 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 4 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it . |
| 7 | Alternatively , you might have found yourself without the ready money you needed to snap up a bargain — like that washing machine you saw in the sales . |
| 8 | He observed in a mocking tone , ‘ I think six months would be pushing it , even if you managed to summon up a miracle . |
| 9 | Millions of viewers became aware of some of the practical and emotional problems and watched as she struggled to bring up a baby without a partner or an income . |
| 10 | ‘ Hi , ’ she managed to summon up a smile . |
| 11 | Then the professional in her broke through , and seemingly from nowhere she managed to conjure up a smile . |
| 12 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 13 | Well with the others , it used to have to brake , if it were going too fast , you had to brake up a bit . |
| 14 | Stupid it was , saying you had to heat up a thing out of a lawnmower . |
| 15 | ‘ Last night she wanted to wrap up a pizza for him . |
| 16 | We tried to fix up a time to talk about the Willis Phazer board . |
| 17 | He denounced function as an irrelevance and said that we needed to set up a structure . |
| 18 | In order to evaluate the most effective ways of meeting the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers , we decided to set up a variety of pilot projects — these will be discussed by Ian Baillie in his talk on the Strathclyde development Fund . |
| 19 | We decided to move up a gear . |
| 20 | Goodman , and a combination of luck and good defending/ goalkeeping was sufficient to keep out Leeds when we managed to build up a head of steam . |
| 21 | First , we had to set up a structure so we could record all the non-conformances and make sure corrective action was taken . |
| 22 | The police were attacked as they tried to break up a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered in a field at Sidlow Bridge , near Reigate , Surrey . |
| 23 | In 1826 , when the members of the British Factory were worried by reports that a daily newspaper was about to be published in Funchal , they decided to set up a find for the protection of any British subject attacked by the newspaper . |
| 24 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 25 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 26 | While at Oxford he began to draw up a catalogue of the fifteenth-century books in the Bodleian Library . |
| 27 | When this fell through he decided to set up a family business and , with his two brothers , established a nursery and contracting firm in Windermere . |
| 28 | The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work . |
| 29 | Not because he wanted to set up a model village , but because he saw that with the employment he was generating at Bournville out in the Worcestershire countryside , speculative builders would come in and put up very inferior dwellings if he did n't take a hand . |
| 30 | He wanted to set up a new-enterprise in New York , a law firm advising immigrants . |