Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 2 | However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard . |
| 3 | County rang the changes desperately , sending on Slawson for Lund in an attempt to pep up an attack in which Farina , the striker on loan from Bari , made a rather featureless full debut . |
| 4 | So the question , where a wording which was not accepted by tradition was used , was always whether it was intended by the testator to give rise to a relationship at law ; and the words were examined for an intention to set up a trust . |
| 5 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 6 | An application to set up a pharmacy in the village , which would threaten the services offered by GPs in Four Marks and Ropley , had been turned down , but was due to go to appeal . |
| 7 | In an effort to pep up an attack , Wilkinson took off Rod Wallace in favour of youngster Noel Whelan . |
| 8 | It might also be an idea to wire up a linesman one day to record the 90 minutes of bile emanating from both benches . |