Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 2 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 3 | When a floorboard is difficult to lift or when you only want to take up a short piece , a floorboard saw is helpful . |
| 4 | We want to bring up a nice girl , not a little pig . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean serving up a one-legged chicken in front of all those guests . |
| 7 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 8 | Recognizing the need for the development of international law on liability and compensation arising from the transport or disposal of hazardous wastes , the resolution requested UNEP to set up a working group of experts on this issue . |
| 9 | And Leeds hope to wrap up a short-term deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner in the next three or four days . |
| 10 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 12 | I remember picking up a discarded newspaper and reading about a vicious gang attack on two young men , one of whom managed to escape . |
| 13 | ‘ I like to keep up a brisk pace . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 15 | You know when you 're waterskiing with a really powerful boat and you slant your skis as you curve to send up a whole curtain of water ? |
| 16 | Phillips says that ‘ at first we try to set up a good rapport and explore the range of powers claimed . |
| 17 | The skin is sandwiched between the bone and the shoe and continuous irritation and chafing causes skin to build up a protective bulwark until it is a thickened layer of dead , horny tissue . |
| 18 | In the meantime , try to keep up a social life and meet other people . |
| 19 | In the Old Testament , farmer Amos , with rustic bluntness , flays those who attempt to keep up a religious facade without matching conduct ; and James , his outspoken New Testament counterpart , exposes those who are " hearers of the word " but not " doers " of it . |
| 20 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 21 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 22 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |
| 23 | The Private Greens have finally laid their bogey team — the Provincials — and now aim to set up a final decider for this year 's championship at Ulster Transport on Thursday , May 27 when the defending champions NIBA provide the opposition . |
| 24 | Some of them are pretty useless , but you do pick up a little information from each one . |
| 25 | Through word of mouth and demand from customers , they 've built up a sizable business with five drivers . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've built up a great spirit and really enjoy taking part , ’ said Smith . |
| 27 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 28 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 29 | If you did n't see it , it 's a tricky one but there 's a good way , we 've brought up a good point as well , if we look at the car when the car comes up , who said Polo ? |
| 30 | Goal hero Steve Mardenborough added : ‘ We knew we had to get a result because we 've slipped up a little bit recently . |