Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 2 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 3 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 4 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 5 | As one of his responsibilities he began to build up a permanent collection of works of Art for West Riding Schools . |
| 6 | And thirdly , the care and trouble he took to build up a splendid and lovely collection of contemporary , original works of art , to be displayed in schools . |
| 7 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 8 | He intended to build up a small collection of workmen 's clothes , a Brabant smock , a fisherman 's outfit of yellow oilskin and a sou'wester , a grey linen suit of the sort worn by miners , straw hat , wooden clogs , so that he could dress his models in them . |