Example sentences of "[vb pp] up a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 2 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 3 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 4 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale , however , our machines have picked up a host of animal noises at frequencies above the range of our ears , called ultrasound . |
| 6 | What they do find difficult is filling their day once they have actually come off drugs because they have built up a kind of lifestyle that has already been said |
| 7 | However , the evaluators are not satisfied that they have built up a picture of library use which permits them to be confident in drawing firm conclusions about the project 's success in these terms . |
| 8 | Stephan Heitmann has stirred up a storm of protest for suggesting the Germans should draw a line under history including the Holocaust . |
| 9 | ‘ Those hallucinogenics experiments certainly stirred up a lot of shit . ’ |
| 10 | CREAM cake king Chris Liveras has stirred up a lot of controversey since he decided to build a cake factory the Preston Farm site once earmarked for development by the Ministry of Defence . |
| 11 | Once the working party had drawn up a schedule of accommodation , illustrated above , it then fell to medical and nursing officers within SHHD , and CSABD , together with colleagues from SDD Building Directorate to work this schedule up into a detailed design guidance . |
| 12 | Later , the spectra of other stars were examined , and before the end of the last century astronomers at Harvard College Observatory in the United States had drawn up a system of classification which is still used . |
| 13 | The trade body , the Textile Services Association , has drawn up a code of practice , endorsed by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The voice was warm , too , as if it had soaked up a lot of sunshine . |
| 16 | We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right . |
| 17 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 18 | But I 've packed up a bundle of bedding — towels — things like that for you to use in the meantime . ’ |
| 19 | He had rigged up a sort of tent , I saw now , draping his jacket over the open door , a shirt over her legs . |
| 20 | Blanche had summoned up a tearful of sympathy for Christine Mills when she learnt of her father 's death . |
| 21 | ‘ Few clients can give us a breakdown but historically we 've burnt up a lot of fuel . |
| 22 | Apart from its original holiday retailing company , it has set up a chain of travel agencies , developed a flight training centre in connection with its Orion airline subsidiary , moved into holiday hotel development and even into selling holiday properties abroad . |
| 23 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 24 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 25 | In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war . |
| 26 | Having brought up a tray of pizza , salad and fresh fruit , from a capacious pocket Rosa produced the missing locket . |
| 27 | Victor , sensing that there would be little sleep but much talking and soul-searching that night , thoughtfully brought up a tray of coffee and a bottle of cognac . |
| 28 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 29 | The police had rounded up a circle of drug users and suppliers . |
| 30 | THREE Middlesbrough councillors who between them have notched up a century of service to local people are to be made freemen of the borough today . |