Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 2 | I thought my form had been good enough throughout the year to warrant selection , but there is always that niggling doubt , especially as I had angered Frank Dick by not turning up for a relay practice at Loughborough where he was engaged in running the annual Summer School for athletics . |
| 3 | Now there 's a sight you do n't see every day , Restaurateur and Chef Extraordinaire Raymond Blanc , the man who sets culinary trends at up to £70 a head , queueing up for a school dinner in Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 5 | Several could not recall subscribing to Channel 7 ; one had refused to subscribe ; one had signed up for a trial period at some point ; and the majority had been unhappy with the service . |
| 6 | Boro boss Lawrence , meanwhile , is not lined up for a summer move to Spurs despite rumours sweeping the NorthEast . |
| 7 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 8 | ‘ Some savers like term shares where they tie their money up for a set period in return for a limited guarantee regarding the interest , ’ says Willis . |
| 9 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 10 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 11 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 12 | Florida was opened up as a winter resort in the 1890s by Henrys Flagler and Plant , both millionaires and railroad company owners . |
| 13 | The Lord Jesus Christ is saying that all of the Scripture is summed up as a love relationship with God and a love relationship with our neighbour . |
| 14 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 15 | After six months as a house surgeon at Essex County Hospital , Colchester , he set up as a country doctor in the New Forest , his amusing recollections of which appeared in St. Bartholomew 's Hospital Journal ( 1933–5 ) . |
| 16 | On his return to Britain , he set up as a portrait painter in both London and Edinburgh , purveying the Grand Manner to all buyers , but even then it was a restrained baroque , tempered by Ramsay 's own unmelodramatic personality . |
| 17 | Less fortunate was twenty-year-old Leo who , in early 1944 , set up as a freelance photographer without first obtaining formal documentation from the Home Office . |
| 18 | Carnforth grew up as a railway town from 1857 . |
| 19 | He was dressed up as a pantomime character in the picture and was posing . |
| 20 | Cross a Mafia boss , and you could end up as a protein supplement for Sicilian swine . |
| 21 | But he said they went back up after a picture request from the Bootle Times , and were not removed again till the next day . |
| 22 | The Freshwater Fisheries ( Scotland ) Act , allowing the setting up of a Protection Order for catchment areas ; and several of these new orders are now in force , including one covering the Garry and Tummel Catchment Area . |
| 23 | A sterner note prefaced another statement of intent , the setting up of a Standing Committee on Criminal Law Revision : ‘ In order that those deserving punishment shall not escape owing to defects in the criminal law ’ . |
| 24 | Britain also , of course , now has sizeable ethnic minorities and there has been considerable concern about their educational achievement , resulting in the setting up of a government committee of inquiry . |
| 25 | A major initiative was the setting up of a degree course in Church Planting and Evangelism at Spurgeon 's College . |
| 26 | One of the agreements which our government signed at Rio , was for the setting up of a sustainability plan for a British economy , yet ever since the end of that conference , these proposals have been getting successfully watered down and deleted . |
| 27 | NATO Defence Ministers attending a meeting of the Nuclear Planning Group ( NPG ) in Vilamoura , Portugal , on Oct. 24-25 ( see p. 36989 ) announced the setting up of a study group on NATO nuclear weapons policy . |
| 28 | Running concurrently with this , was the drawing up of a policy statement about staff and parents working together . |
| 29 | It was suddenly as though the passion had been drained from her , her juices drying up like a desert stream in summer . |
| 30 | Imagine a craft slipping in to one of those in excess of Mach 5 and it would fold up like a paper dart in a wind-tunnel . |