Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’ |
| 2 | You 'd go in and have to queue up , wait for the chance to get the frying pan to put bacon and egg in it , and your hands so cold you could hardly hold it , and that would take up a quarter of an hour . |
| 3 | I 'll write you up a prescription for an antibiotic . |
| 4 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 5 | David came back to Scotland in 1968 to take up a post as an assistant to the director of education with the City of Edinburgh Corporation . |
| 6 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |
| 7 | For a tenner , I snapped up a dinner-jacket for an office party , and gave it back afterwards . |
| 8 | Unsurprisingly , since some institutions have literally thousands of enquirers , records are seldom kept of those who do not follow up an enquiry with an application . |
| 9 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |