Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zborowski said nothing but went into his room and changed into worn summer clothes and came out carrying his only winter suit parcelled up to take to the pawnbroker . |
| 2 | This allows you to make a more considered approach than a telephone call and to use the job matching list you have drawn up to bring to the employer 's attention the reasons why you are suitable for the job and why you should be seen for interview . |
| 3 | Many thousands arrived by rail and road and local Kidderminster car-parks were specially opened up to cope with the volume of visitors . |
| 4 | She expelled her breath sharply , and automatically reached up to fiddle with the bun at her nape , easing her arms back , trying to release the tension mounting in her shoulders . |
| 5 | Do you have any reminiscences of the the Great War and the way it affected , were many of the men called up to serve from the area ? |
| 6 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 7 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 8 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 9 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
| 10 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 11 | Here there is a similarity with the way in which a home is set up to cope with the needs and activities of its occupants , who may be compared with the living fire on the hearth ! |
| 12 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 13 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 14 | Before running the Validation program , ensure that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up to point to the configuration file for the LIFESPAN system being checked . |
| 15 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 16 | No but the national accounts department is set up to deal with the head offices of of the key multiples and national accounts . |
| 17 | At the same time Sir David Maxwell Fyfe persistently refused the requests of Sir Robert Boothby in Parliament that a Royal Commission should be set up to enquire into the nature and treatment of homosexuality . |
| 18 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
| 19 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 20 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 21 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |
| 22 | In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead . |
| 23 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 24 | Women suffer from male-dominated ideas about sexual attractiveness , being brought up to conform to the idea that they should be sexually attractive to men , and that sexual attractiveness is associated with the youthful , attractive bodies of the pin-up . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's obviously been brought up to look on the doctor as the bogey man . ’ |
| 26 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 27 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 28 | Other retailers already signed up to move into the centre are Dixon Sports , Strand Cards , H Samuel , C&J Clark and Dorothy Perkins . |
| 29 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 30 | THE Prime Minister , Jeffrey Archer , Sylvester Stallone and Rod Stewart are among those lined up to appear on the Wogan chat show as part of BBC TV 's £82 million line-up of programmes for the new year . |