Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have difficult or embarrassing questions to ask — about an unfavourable response to a reference , for example — leave it until the latter part of the interview when you have built up a reasonable rapport with the interviewee . |
| 2 | Through word of mouth and demand from customers , they 've built up a sizable business with five drivers . |
| 3 | Over the centuries , these conditions had built up a large population with a high level of energy . |
| 4 | It says it has now drawn up a refinancing plan with the banks . |
| 5 | Having not heard from you in response to my late September FAX , I am a little concerned lest you and Ian have not yet tied up a firm date with Michael Rose of BAIE SECRETARIAT , to whom I am sending a copy of P this fax , for next June 's seminar . |
| 6 | It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes . |
| 7 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 8 | ST MARY 'S set up a mouthwatering final with Queen 's after a spirited victory over UCG at St Paul 's . |
| 9 | I have noticed , once the fish have begun feeding and I have set up a steady rhythm with the swimfeeder , that the crucial time for getting bites is up to thirty seconds after the ‘ feeder has hit the surface . |
| 10 | The Yugoslav republic of Serbia has set up an environmental inspectorate with wide-ranging powers . |
| 11 | It is being attacked daily by that real group of parasites , the Tory Party , the Tories will no doubt bring in workfare just as soon as they 've softened up the wider public with their slavish friends in the media . |
| 12 | He is the sort of young player who should be encouraged ’ He believes Salisbury could have struck up a deadly partnership with Phil Tufnell . |
| 13 | Alone and friendless , she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin . |
| 14 | She was accepted for the Winter Gardens show , immediately struck up a great friendship with Edith Whalley and they became inseparable . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the daughters , Fiona , who was always known as ‘ the pretty one ’ , had struck up a great friendship with Mama , who had been invited back to Scotland . |
| 16 | You must gauge for yourself whether or not you have struck up a good relationship with the interviewer and whether a letter would work for you or against you . |
| 17 | While Payton has struck up a sound understanding with Frank McAvennie , Celtic 's greatest asset today may be their desire for victory . |
| 18 | I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast . |
| 19 | Aggie finally found the cat a good home and from that day onwards she had kept up a running battle with her mice , reverting to paper plugs soaked in vinegar , which seemed to be reasonably effective . |
| 20 | Since then we have kept up an ongoing communication with one another . |
| 21 | You have laboured up an unending hill with heavy feet which are swollen , sore and tired . |