Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
2 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
3 | But the suggestion is that he was the black sheep , because he gave up the throne for a woman . |
4 | After all , a round in the mid-60s might well bring him well up the field for a charge on the final two days . |
5 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
6 | If I may be allowed a topical rugby metaphor , we had , so to speak lined up the ball for a conversion . |
7 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
8 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
9 | Mr Robinson took up the case for a majority of the Castlereagh firemen who left the Fire Service because they were not prepared to uproot their families and move to Carryduff . |
10 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
11 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
12 | With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months . |
13 | Nobody in Manchester is going to put up the rates for a power station in Corby . ’ |
14 | Even if it were true that the Tsar was long dead , as people said , Abie knew that no army ever gave up the hunt for a deserter . |
15 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
16 | Then you can boil up the carcass for a turkey soup or stock . |
17 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |
18 | The light has strengthened enough now to gather binoculars and telescope and start up the car for a look round my ‘ patch ’ . |
19 | Draw up a plan for a supermarket using the following information : |
20 | He canna climb up a tree for a coconut , he canna go up the mountain for wild bananas . |
21 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
22 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
23 | A major advantage of deck shoes is their price — you can easily pick up a pair for a fiver . |
24 | A group of children have taken up a campaign for a footpath outside their school . |
25 | He 's drawn up a route for a walk to the South Pole … of Mars , that is . |
26 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
27 | 2 ) I also met Diana England who teaches at IH in Lisbon and who wants to put up a proposal for a Resource Book on Spelling . |
28 | ‘ Luci Hayter looked as if she 'd been up every night for a week . |
29 | Master butcher Howard Callaghan returned from picking up an award for a pork window display to discover the plate glass front of the shop blown away . |