Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] [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 government in January 1990 agreed to set up an investigation into political murders in the states of Michoacán and Guerrero . |
| 10 | The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While at Oxford he began to draw up a catalogue of the fifteenth-century books in the Bodleian Library . |
| 16 | In fact , the CEGB only began to build up a fund for decommissioning in 1976 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 21 | Ex-nurse Allitt was convicted of the crimes at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital , Lincolnshire , last month and the Health Secretary decided to set up a hearing behind closed doors , chaired by Sir Cecil Clothier . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For his part , Corbett could only fret and decided to draw up a memorandum on what he had learnt so far : |
| 24 | At a meeting in Paris on 11 June the Syndicat decided to draw up a code of conduct for its members . |
| 25 | In point of fact , my mind started to wake up a bit during this period . |
| 26 | Blake went to pick up a handful of the substance , but the Doctor kicked it out of his grasp . |
| 27 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 28 | Nkrumah managed to keep up a correspondence by writing on lavatory paper which he wheedled out of his cellmates . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |