Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 2 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 3 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 6 | Two Noblemen of Scotland , Macdonald of the Isles , and the Thane of Cawdor , conspired to set up a rebellion in the Highlands to draw the King 's army to quell it , whilst Sweno , the Norwegian King , appeared with his own army , and started to march across Scotland . |
| 7 | He wanted to set up a new-enterprise in New York , a law firm advising immigrants . |