Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were told that indications of public concern over proposed development strategies were also influential on the WO and the SoS ( a clear invitation to CPRW to turn up the heat ) . |
| 2 | She said that two Daughters of Charity are going to Romania to set up a training programme for nursing staff and care assistants . |
| 3 | Duncan , at six feet eight inches , has a devastating service , and is now off to Texas to take up a tennis scholarship . |
| 4 | Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff . |
| 5 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 7 | Actors and dancers came to Alexander for advice ; he became a therapist and in 1900 moved to England to set up a practice in London . |
| 8 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 9 | In a similar vein one may recall the refusal of Taskopruzade 's grandfather to return to Istanbul to take up an appointment at the newly built Sahn for fear of becoming involved in distracting ambitions for personal glory . |
| 10 | In December 1914 Edith Pye went to Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a maternity hospital for women refugees from Reims in what had been an insane asylum , without hot water or electricity , fifteen miles from the fighting line . |
| 11 | Some sort of dress rehearsal was clearly required for the Cypriot police officers who were only just coming to grips with wiretap technology , and , right on cue , one of Hurley 's informants passed the word that Abou Daod , a Lebanese drugs trafficker , was coming to Cyprus to set up a deal . |
| 12 | Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium . |
| 13 | In 1985 Jones moved back to Provo to take up an appointment in the physics department at his Alma Mater , BYU . |
| 14 | John van Nost , who died in 1728 , came from Flanders to London to set up a workshop to meet this need . |