Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs . |
| 2 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 3 | He stated that he had informed President César Gaviria Trujillo " a long time ago " of his intention to take up a post in the Higher Council for the Administration of Justice . |
| 4 | A policyholder who called at Croydon branch recalled an occasion years earlier when he was summoned to appear before the Board of Directors at London Office because he notified the Society of his intention to take up an appointment in Singapore . |
| 5 | Wells lost his tolerance of contradiction in his anxiety to tidy up the world . |
| 6 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 7 | Jessica , after a time , had said she loved him too , and grew quite fascinated by his refusal to bring up the subject of fidelity . |
| 8 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | Amidst calls to bring back the birch and to inaugurate ‘ Saturday night floggings ’ for soccer hooligans , Mr William Whitelaw reaffirmed his pledge to toughen up the law by introducing a new regime of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres modelled on the Army ‘ glass house ’ system of physical drill and unrelenting discipline . |
| 10 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
| 11 | Brian Fletcher on Red Rum thought he was , and urged his mount to keep up the pursuit . |
| 12 | On his way to mop up the bathroom he stood before a mirror admiring his Egyptian slimness of hip . |
| 13 | Wanted in Bolivia on murder charges brought as a result of the coup in July 1980 , Arce had allegedly used his position to set up a cocaine racket . |
| 14 | His support for Darwin was not based on his ability to take up a research programme suggested by the theory proposed in the Origin . |
| 15 | As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room . |
| 16 | Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all . |
| 17 | Why would he find it in his interest to ratchet up a challenge to a foreign power that has , after all , an impeccable legal position in Panama and a considerable military position ? |
| 18 | But Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed just inches from the turf . |
| 19 | However , Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed inches from the turf . |