Example sentences of "up [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music . |
| 2 | I have also been invited to take up my abode at Government House during Lady F 's absence at Macquarie . |
| 3 | After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex-Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . |
| 4 | Cindy Gallop has given up her career in theatre marketing and gone into advertising . |
| 5 | NEC Corp last week firmed up its agreement with Control Data Systems Inc under which it will acquire a 4.99% stake in the company , paying about $5.3m . |
| 6 | In response to defence cutbacks , British Aerospace is stepping up its programme of cost containment , and is trying to align output more closely with what it sees as ‘ key ’ market needs . |
| 7 | The European Community and America need to resume the GATT talks at once , patch up their quarrel over farm trade , and conclude the agreements on services and other issues that had seemed within reach when the talks were suspended . |
| 8 | They gave up their home in South Bank and are now at St Andrew 's Bible College , Malton . |
| 9 | MORE than 1,000 Maxwell pensioners and print workers yesterday staged a rally and lobby of Parliament to step up their campaign for Government action to give them long-term security for their pensions . |
| 10 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 11 | These built up their strength through youth organizations , clubs and activity centres in the refugee camps and towns . |
| 12 | Nkrumah also made an African tour , in which he built up his relationship with president Nasser , and went on to visit Nehru in India . |
| 13 | Ken Pellant , of Guisborough Tourist Information Centre , picks up his Certificate of Tourist Information Centre Competence today . |
| 14 | When he had fallen asleep , Aurangzeb quietly chained up his brother in silver fetters and sent him off to Delhi in a covered elephant howdah . |
| 15 | In April Neville Chamberlain had told Davidson he must give up his post as party Chairman . |
| 16 | In August 1992 , Ian McCartney took up his post as Student Enterprise Officer at the Enterprise Centre . |
| 17 | He was thirty-five , had recently given up his job as science master at Dulwich College , and was crossing the Atlantic — according to subsequent family legend , at least — in half-hearted pursuit of an American heiress . |
| 18 | My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock . |