Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 2 | All the shopkeepers there have chipped in and hired a promo agency to drum up Christmas trade . |
| 3 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 4 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 5 | It gave the name of a contact point to follow up information , although some of us had reservations about whether it should have been the person who was actually quoted in the press release |
| 6 | Not too great a challenge right now , but a development programme to build up confidence , the ability to play at the highest level . |
| 7 | This will increase the suction effect slightly and can make water move upwards , much as a lamp wick draws up oil to replace that being burned . |
| 8 | We both got our heads down and then a scratching noise started up Steve is that you ? |
| 9 | A system is being considered that would place shield-type support beams in front of a drum cutter opening up tunnels while being operated 10–20 metres behind . |
| 10 | Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he 's away from home . |
| 11 | As the Cheshires sped away , soldiers in one of the Land Rovers leaped out at a road block to take up positions in a ditch and provide covering fire with their SA80 automatic rifles . |
| 12 | More senior pupils in schools can use a word processor to write up projects or dissertations for internal or external examinations . |
| 13 | The same day the secretaries of the state for trade and industry ( Peter Lilley ) and for education and science ( Kenneth Clarke ) announced a pilot scheme to build up partnerships between HE and industrial research organisation |
| 14 | A company spokesman sums up BT 's intentions graphically : ‘ There are too many people at BT . |
| 15 | A raffle organised by the Triangle Community Association of Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , raised more than £2,256 to be split between the TCA and South Cleveland Hospital 's appeal for a lithotripter machine to break up kidney stones . |
| 16 | He saw an army platoon setting up position and soldiers scattering along the undergrowth . |
| 17 | One of the major differences of the Department of National Savings relative to other financial intermediaries is that it does not hold an asset portfolio to back up liabilities held , and therefore is not constrained by the need to adhere to liquidity , solvency or capital adequacy regulations ( given that funds are backed by the Treasury and are therefore essentially default-free ) . |
| 18 | President Bush issues an executive order calling up US military reservists for the first time since 1968 . |