Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once The Stage covered all finals productions from the drama schools , but now they may write up a play perhaps once a year . |
| 2 | You know they 'll set up a search as soon as we 're reported missing . |
| 3 | I know they were collecting recordings of all the national songs , so they could set up a Ratio Free Norway or Denmark or Italy somewhere , after … ’ |
| 4 | I 've also had a query from a Sheffield Wednesday fan asking if they could set up a list here too ( the answer was no ! ) |
| 5 | ‘ If the middle tier marketed themselves better , they could pick up a lot of business . ’ |
| 6 | And it was interesting because er , we were talking about propulsion , talking about all types of er mechanics and sciences , and the way they 'd write up a report at the end which is part of the English part of it , and one of the youngsters said to me , he said , can I go home Mr ? |
| 7 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 8 | ‘ The days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun and get him to sign an injunction , ’ Mr Todd said . |
| 9 | THE days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline in The Sun , and get him to sign an injunction . |
| 10 | ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken . |
| 11 | They they can set up a pension er |
| 12 | ‘ You know what I think about this ‘ protected species ’ business , ’ he said , reshuffling the logs , ‘ I think they 're protecting all the game for themselves so they can set up a hunter 's paradise for the rich — for foreigners and high-ranking government officials . |
| 13 | This year it includes a series of extravaganzas in sports centres at Omagh , Craigavon , Lisburn and Ballymena and the distribution of a booklet telling children how they can take up a sport . |