Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Before she 'd begun to swing up a knee into his groin he jerked her towards him . |
| 2 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 3 | The usual routine for the Stone family was that Chrissie , and two other mothers , alternated coming to pick up a total of five children every day . |
| 4 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 5 | ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada . |
| 7 | The Church of Scotland had agreed to make up a proportion of the shortfall equal to the proportion of its members present . |
| 8 | Sophie was always reckless ; and Sam had wanted to blow up a train . |
| 9 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 10 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 11 | But once one lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with meat rather than grass , the process was self-reinforcing . |
| 12 | And once the other lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with grass rather than meat , that process was self-reinforcing in the other direction . |
| 13 | Immediately he joined the group of hard , inflexible German communists the Soviet Union had sent to set up a puppet government in the sector of Germany they occupied . |
| 14 | Where the settlor is himself insolvent , the trust is invalid , and creditors can execute against all the settlor 's property including that over which he had purported to set up a trust . |
| 15 | After the war , when Helmut had something to do with a factory in Brazil , where he and Father had managed to set up a colony of displaced persons , Father supplied all the machine tools and worked closely with Helmut on the project . |