Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |
| 2 | Once those scenes had been completed , the carrier went back to North Island to pick up the replica aircraft and the two P–40s , and transported the entire group to Hawaii . |
| 3 | IT would be reasonable to suppose that dreams of following Daley Thompson have inspired Anthony Brannen to take up the world record holder 's former mantle as Britain 's leading decathlete . |
| 4 | At a meeting with US Secretary of State James Baker on July 13 , Prime Minister Hage Geingob asked the USA to use its influence with South Africa to speed up the negotiations over the port of Walvis Bay , which remained under South African jurusdiction . |
| 5 | THREE nuns from Darlington Carmel Convent follow in the footsteps of their predecessors this month when they travel to South Africa to set up the country 's first multi-racial convent . |
| 6 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 7 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 8 | I went down to Monte Carlo to set up a tournament and was privileged to be granted a meeting with the sports-mad Prince at the Palace . |
| 9 | Community Campus are working with Centrepoint Soho to set up a Return Home project in Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | The very next week an advertisement came round the office from Scottish Overseas Health Support looking for nurse teachers to go out to Saudi Arabia to set up a training programme for dental hygienists , medical records officers and ( you 've guessed it ) nurses , CAUGHT ! ! |
| 11 | " Now that he wo n't have Ma to talk to , and there 's no Mr Blake to get up a subscription if he goes down , I 'd say he might lose heart altogether . |
| 12 | But he does n't come often , only when he wants Mr Ballantyne to put up the money for one of his schemes or projects , which Mr Ballantyne usually does for the sake of his daughter . |
| 13 | He had described as " a fraud " the recent attempts under KGB chairman Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov to clean up the KGB 's public image and stress its role in fighting genuine crime . |
| 14 | By comparison , in Area 6 , Record Centre Maidstone continue in sparkling form at the head of the table , achieving their third win of the season against Crawley , which , in turn , enabled David Lloyd Eastbourne to move up a place above the leader 's victims . |
| 15 | She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village . |
| 16 | A part of the Jubilee Appeal funding has enabled Jennie Appleby to take up the half-time paid post of North East Field Officer , for a year in the first instance . |
| 17 | For the Mau Maus to take up the offering was like asking Jack the Ripper to baby sit . |
| 18 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 19 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 20 | It was Aer Lingus girl , Denise McCarthy , who caused the day 's biggest upset against the great Mary McKenna to set up a clash with Baltray 's pretty Oonagh Purfield for promotion to the last eight . |
| 21 | One such plan was Reith 's appointment of Patrick Abercrombie and the LCC architect J. H. Forshaw to draw up a scheme for the rebuilding of London . |
| 22 | After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports , |
| 23 | The day I left school I told Granpa he could lie in while I went off to Covent Garden to fill up the barrow , but he would n't hear of it . |
| 24 | Curtis looked extremely sharp in his 6–0 6–1 dismissal of Broxbourne 's Nick Lester to set up a final which , on paper , looked evenly balanced . |
| 25 | Early on , we commissioned the architect Terry Farrell to draw up a scheme showing exactly this . |
| 26 | The film was a big success , partly because of its openness about sex ( made possible by the appointment of John Trevelyan to head up the BBFC ) , but also because the hero 's class resentment brought to the surface emotions that British cinema normally repressed . |