Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her family attempted to fix up a marriage with the US-settled tennis star from India , Ashok Amritraj . |
| 2 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 3 | And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on . |
| 4 | She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same . |
| 5 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 6 | It was also planned that wherever possible these local workers should be employed to work with a specific elderly person , and thus to build up a relationship between the two . |
| 7 | It was stressed that full time staff were needed for old people , especially in terms of building up a relationship with the old people which would mean that the help would be more efficient and effective . |
| 8 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Matthieu was also responsible for drawing up a plan of the New Town ( see p. 138 ) but he died in 1352 before completing more than four chapels in the cathedral choir . |
| 10 | She made him up a bed on the high white divan in her living-room — not a heap of sleeping-bags and blankets but a real bed , with laundered sheets and pillows in emerald green cotton cases . |
| 11 | have made you up a bed in the spare room I |
| 12 | I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room . |
| 13 | Police are now talking to a 30 year old friend of the family , who 's up a tree in the nearby woods , threatening to jump off a branch with a rope round his neck . |
| 14 | Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows : |
| 15 | The head keeper shrugged and led them back up a passageway to a cleaner empty cell . |
| 16 | However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience . |
| 17 | NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half . |
| 18 | The text is plain : it asserts that a settlor can set up a trust with a posthumous child of his brother as trustee . |
| 19 | Gazza beat David Seaman with a 35-yard free kick and set up a goal in a blistering comeback against Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final . |
| 20 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 21 | It was agreed to reconvene the permanent commission to draw up a treaty between the two countries . |
| 22 | A solicitor fails to draw up a will within a reasonable time for a client who subsequently dies . |
| 23 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 24 | On her bedpost , it was said , she notched up a mark for every new lover . |
| 25 | Everyone stepped up a mark in the Seventies . |
| 26 | We were making our way up a trackway towards the main gate of the manor when suddenly an old hag slipped out of the trees on one side of the path and stood squarely in front of Mandeville . |
| 27 | However , in certain limited circumstances you can make voluntary contributions to make up a shortfall in a particular year . |
| 28 | Athelstan picked up a quill with a modest flourish , uncapped the inkhorn and dipped in his pen . |
| 29 | A FORMER soldier who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb because of a £140 debt was jailed for 12 years yesterday . |
| 30 | A MAN who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb , has been jailed for 12 years . |