Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind yer , Billy 's bin on about openin' up a gymnasium for the young lads around 'ere . |
| 2 | Finding one was Coleman 's first assignment for Operation Goldenrod , in between setting up a NARCOG listening post in his back bedroom and instructing the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) in electronic surveillance . |
| 3 | ‘ Very soon after the campaign of unspeakable suffering had commenced , ’ James Butterworth wrote in 1932 , ‘ those who had laboured long in building up a club saw the once-hooligan juniors , who had become stalwart seniors , whipped away as by magic … |
| 4 | John Stork , until recently also an entirely British-owned search firm , has established a significant niche in the British headhunting business but , unlike GKR , it has concentrated less on building up a large volume of business in London and more on expanding into Europe . |
| 5 | Though you do make it sound like running up a cotton frock . |
| 6 | All language is morally loaded ( one campaigner 's unborn child is another 's clump of cells ) but those who would trick the public by the term pre-embryo should be prepared to concentrate on the moral status of the early embryo , not on dreaming up a new vocabulary . |
| 7 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 8 | For this reason , it is best to practise a pan before you shoot , starting with the body pre-swung through half of the movement in the opposite direction — rather like winding up a spring . |
| 9 | Rather like putting up a mouth to get a kiss and getting a blow instead . |
| 10 | This allows the lungs to remain inflated after a breath is taken , without it the lung does not expand adequately and the baby had to work much harder to breathe — rather like blowing up a new balloon as opposed to one with some air already in it . |
| 11 | It may be prudent for a firm to gain experience in the market through agents and distributors before venturing directly into setting up a manufacturing subsidiary . |
| 12 | Now according to a report in today 's Guardian , the company is considering going a step further by setting up a manufacturing plant in Russia . |
| 13 | In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system . |
| 14 | The man who succeeded him as Secretary General of the Young Communists , Carlos Contreras Maluje , was picked up after putting up a struggle in the street . |
| 15 | We 've added controls which take full advantage of the instant responsiveness and controllability of gas , so you need n't make a meal out of cooking up a snack . |
| 16 | ‘ Prime Minister out for a duck , ’ he muttered as he drew back from picking up a china duck at an Accrington factory . |
| 17 | DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament . |
| 18 | Weediness , it would seem , can not be fully described simply by totting up a score . |
| 19 | Knowing that mere seconds might mean the difference between life and death for the hundreds of people trapped by the explosions , IMDEC responded immediately by setting up a citizens ' coordinating committee , drawing on the expertise and resources of 27 social and human rights organisations . |
| 20 | We can usefully begin our discussion here by taking up a very important and characteristic religious theme : the ambiguity or ambivalence which is so often such a striking feature of mystical power . |
| 21 | There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’ |
| 22 | I 'll back chasing young cattle against anything else for working up a sweat , and I had already forgotten the uncharitable world outside . |
| 23 | Sam realized that , for the first time , Clare was yelling at him instead of building up a silent volcano of resentment . |
| 24 | Sometimes , perhaps , instead of setting up a series of difficult and time-consuming experiments , he checks to see whether the answer is already known . |
| 25 | If we want sales to be six-dimensional , instead of making up a six-dimensional cube we attach six different labels to each item and store it in the database once . |
| 26 | Likewise in setting up a drama for an already excitable ten-year-old class on their chosen topic of a haunted house , I spent the whole of the first lesson as a pub proprietor refusing to show them how to find the house . |
| 27 | Bilijana , 26 , was looking forward to bringing up a family in their comfortable Sarajevo home . |
| 28 | Benelux , for instance , had already moved forward to setting up a low common external tariff with no internal tariffs . |
| 29 | Last month members of the national parliaments of the 21 nations belonging to the Council of Europe called on ministers to look again at setting up a international agency . |