Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 2 | She was standing in the wings , leaning against a post that supported a wooden framework , which in turn held up a number of backcloths . |
| 3 | The election was precipitated by the resignation of William H. Gray in order to take up a job with the United Negro College Fund . |
| 4 | To interpret is to impoverish , to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow of ‘ meanings ’ ’ . |
| 5 | Record companies generally send these out some time before an event or the release of a product in order to whip up a bit of advance interest from the press . |
| 6 | For each of those case types a treatment pattern was identified and costs were applied in order to build up a treatment cost for the typical patient . |
| 7 | As we have seen , this involves a considerable sorting of data in order to build up a picture of the site — to see , for example , what buildings existed there , and at what periods . |