Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , sweetie , ’ said Dotty , snatching up a twist of cotton wool and wiping the carmine from Stella 's cheeks . |
| 2 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 3 | She snatched up a square of tissue paper , deftly swung and twisted it round a fat brioche . |
| 4 | And he carefully attempts to draw up a balance-sheet of union power , politics and prospects , going far beyond the clichés in which Grant deals . |
| 5 | The Project will have two phases : the first will , via a literature search and examination of current practice in Higher Education and non-Higher Education institutions in the UK and overseas draw up a taxonomy of quality assurance/quality management techniques . |
| 6 | Men such as Huxley and Hooker now played a significant role in the creation of the British scientific establishment by building up a system of government support for research and education . |
| 7 | Oil production will fall by about 5% to make up 26% of total production while coal production will increase by 60%to make up a proportion of energy production similar to 1983 . |
| 8 | And then it eased up a bit at dinner time and then it started again about two o'clock . |
| 9 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 10 | It always seemed a waste to use up a couple of Gold Flake this way , but I always forget to buy cheaper cigarettes and anyway , the corner tabs on the cardboard packets make excellent roaches . |
| 11 | The first small groups to be provided with pensions were the lower-paid naval warrant officers in 1672 , and soon afterwards customs officers ; while an Act of 1749 set up a scheme for master merchant mariners . |
| 12 | This chapter seeks to set up a scheme for language teacher education , a pragmatics of pedagogy , which incorporates these conditions for establishing relevance and provides for the furtherance of proper and profitable relations between theory and practice . |
| 13 | The entire ZTT organisation drew up a blueprint for world domination which was a product of the desire to change the pop star syndrome . |
| 14 | Those in charge of drawing up a blueprint for health-care reform talk of slapping mandatory controls on all drug prices . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've set up a sub-group on child protection and invited schools to further training and seminars . |
| 16 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 17 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | She picked up a sheet of estate agent 's particulars . |
| 19 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 20 | Matt Lynch , manager of the environmental services department of IIRS , outlined for the conference the difficulties that legislation presents when trying to draw up a strategy for pollution control . |
| 21 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 22 | The best way to compare papers is to mix up a batch of wash colour and apply it similarly to different sheets of watercolour paper ( Not surface ) , as I 've done here . |
| 23 | He picked up a copy of Time magazine , the cover story was about Canada ; maybe the British Dominion would be the compromise . |
| 24 | If you could just pick up a load of scrap iron and shove it on the bill under metalwork you would n't be turning up your nose at the subject . |
| 25 | One picks up a piece of donkey shit and throws it at his friend who runs off laughing . |
| 26 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 27 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 28 | ‘ If we can map the isotopic composition of lead in the region we are looking at , ie the Mediterranean , ’ said Gail , ‘ then we can build up a database of trade movement ’ . |
| 29 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
| 30 | The early emphasis upon the powerful house-trained group going about things the proper way built up a picture of group influence and success within the context of the play of a moderate and restrained politics . |