Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 2 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 3 | A WOMAN passer-by who tried to break up a fight outside a Chinese take-away restaurant was punched in the face , Brain-tree magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 6 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 7 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 8 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 9 | The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory . |
| 10 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 12 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 13 | As Welsh coal became available he also purchased this and from his Truro base endeavoured to set up a monopoly of the local fuel business . |
| 14 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 16 | He realised that he 'd opened up a can of worms . |
| 17 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 18 | She took up her child and clutched him to her , for his frail , warm , sleeping form seemed to put up a shield between her and the falling ashes around them . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 20 | The Peloponnesians ravaged the mine district in 430 ( Thuc. ii.55 ) , but it is hard to destroy a mine without explosives , and it was not till the Spartans envisaged setting up a fort on Attic territory at Decelea ( p. 142 ) that there could be talk of seriously damaging Athens ' mining revenues ( vi.91 ) . |
| 21 | John also began building up a collection of gramophone records ; Herbert gave him pocket money to buy one a week . |
| 22 | The many deadening years spent bringing up a family in the narrow society of Tidewater Virginia seemed to be evaporating rapidly from her memory in the heat and excitement of the tropics . |
| 23 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 24 | While at Oxford he began to draw up a catalogue of the fifteenth-century books in the Bodleian Library . |
| 25 | In fact , the CEGB only began to build up a fund for decommissioning in 1976 . |
| 26 | Mr Izetbegovic delivered the appeal for intervention as Muslim defenders of the town of Visegrad , 75 miles south of Zvornik , threatened to blow up a dam on the Drina river and flood a large lake if they sighted Serbian territorial defence members , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 27 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |