Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] up [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We have a marketing executive who signs up golf clubs . |
2 | ‘ I hear that anyone who rings up Elizabeth Bowen in the morning gets a pretty sharp retort . |
3 | Mrs Jeryl Whitelock ( a good friend of Convocation ) presented Sir Michael Bishop and Ed Parker , who heads up CAMPUS made a very humorous introduction of Duncan Nichol , chief of the N.H.S. who had a mind-blowing multibillion pounds to spend . |
4 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
5 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
6 | She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 . |
7 | She is a serial killer who picks up men in the Métro . |
8 | A businessman and a man who puts up ramps for a living ? |
9 | But Jeffrey Katzenberg , chairman of Walt Disney , says : ‘ She seems to be a person who stirs up publicity for herself by attacking her directors and leading men . |
10 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |
11 | friend of Mrs Jarley , a penurious rhymester who makes up advertising jingles . |
12 | I do n't know anyone who brings up children like that any more . |