Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tax regime starting in 1994-95 will encourage them to set up head offices in the UK . |
| 2 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 3 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 4 | Now , she says , I want you to go up town to get me whatever it was , do n't ask me I do n't remember . |
| 5 | Virtually all today 's desktop publishing programs allow you to set up style sheets so that the characteristics of the typography and , in Ventura 's case , the layout as well can all be pre-defined . |
| 6 | Some schemes allow you to give up part of your pension for cohabitees or other adult dependants , and this could also be worth checking on . |
| 7 | It helps you to build up speed and keeps your fingers from getting so tired , as well as prolonging the life of the keyboard . |
| 8 | Nowhere was the impact of this clumsy sleight of hand more evident than in the inner cities , where voluntary organizations had been most active , and where the Government was most anxious for them to mop up unemployment . |
| 9 | Trim flower stems to a similar length and bash the ends with a hammer to enable them to draw up water . |
| 10 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell her to set up Room 403 , for full scrambler equipment , and external telephone and telex communication connected into the central processor for monitoring . |
| 12 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 13 | When blindness compelled him to give up farming in 1966 he learned Braille and carried on with his public duties , being much in demand as a witty public speaker . |
| 14 | So she hid all his Persian textbooks and persuaded him to take up badminton instead . |
| 15 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 16 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 17 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 18 | At one stage her mother had felt she would make a good doctor and did all she could to encourage her to take up medicine . |
| 19 | ‘ Get us away from here , ’ he said sharply , and the other man guided the smaller boat away , allowing it to pick up speed . |
| 20 | One disadvantage , however , is that it acquires static electricity , causing it to pick up dirt easily . |
| 21 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 22 | The HNC in CAE is designed to provide potential Technicians/Technician Engineers with the skills necessary to enable them to take up employment in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment . |
| 23 | On the other hand , women are the targets of a mammoth campaign to persuade them to take up family planning on the grounds that large families are anti-social . |
| 24 | They will be greatly perturbed by the way in which his Department is undermining the provisions of my Badgers Act 1991 by issuing licences to more than 600 fox hunts to enable them to dig up badger setts and unleash terriers into them . |