Example sentences of "to [verb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church has not always recognised their rights to spiritual growth nor the contribution that they can make to building up the body of Christ . |
| 2 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 3 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 4 | My grandfather had died early , so she was used to bringing up a family on her own . |
| 5 | Bilijana , 26 , was looking forward to bringing up a family in their comfortable Sarajevo home . |
| 6 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 7 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll give us the extra numbers we 'll need , when it comes to roundin' up the rest of these Triad Jesus freaks . |
| 9 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 10 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 11 | She broke down in tears and confessed to making up the story of how she was abducted and held by two men for 36 hours . |
| 12 | Austria is negotiating with the EC with a view to setting up a system for monitoring and limiting the pollution caused by heavy lorries in transit across Austria . |
| 13 | Does his eagerness amount to setting up a trust to that effect ? |
| 14 | To teach a list of ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention . |
| 15 | To teach ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention . |
| 16 | To teach ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention |