Example sentences of "[verb] up a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rohan drew up a chair with gilded legs which looked altogether too fragile for his tall frame . |
| 2 | I drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals . |
| 3 | Why do n't you tie up a hobby with a purely personal risk like parachuting … |
| 4 | After the break , though , the Welsh moved up a gear with the French slowing down by the equivalent amount . |
| 5 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 6 | In its geographical analysis , the DCS system also picked up a problem with a particular building . |
| 7 | But City have picked up a bit with a draw at Chelsea and a comfortable win against Crystal Palace , and with the suspended Morley replaced by Oldfield , who knows where the goal is , they will be confident today . |
| 8 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 9 | On the evening when he was to undergo the experience , unique for a Prime Minister of this century , of winding up a debate with the certain knowledge of defeat at the end of his speech , Tom Jones saw him in his room behind the Speaker 's chair . |
| 10 | ‘ It can be hard when they die , because you build up a bond with them . |
| 11 | Loks like granules , but add a pint or so of water and it swells , filling up a vase with solid squishiness and looking like crystal . |
| 12 | Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket . |
| 13 | We know that people do not drift away from their main sources of financial help , social support and continuing treatment , particularly if they have built up a relationship with someone in the service they trust . |
| 14 | She rode out most afternoons and gradually built up a familiarity with most parts of the Lassiter lands . |
| 15 | We put up a lot with him ! |
| 16 | I have seen our old matriarch walk between two younger antagonists and break up a fight with a snarl , even though she was aged and barely able to walk . |
| 17 | I am also aware of another practitioner who is planning to set up a clinic with a treatment based on an electronic system in which ‘ free electrons are pumped into the body by the billions ’ — a claim that may sound impressive to members of the lay public . |
| 18 | It was Aer Lingus girl , Denise McCarthy , who caused the day 's biggest upset against the great Mary McKenna to set up a clash with Baltray 's pretty Oonagh Purfield for promotion to the last eight . |
| 19 | Summerbee struck right on the stroke of half-time to set up a clash with France impressive 3–0 winners over Portugal in the final tomorrow . |
| 20 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 21 | THAILAND 'S James Wattana booked his quarter-final place in the Royal Liver Assurance UK snooker Championship yesterday with a 9–1 win over Mike Hallett at Preston to set up a meeting with Jimmy White today . |
| 22 | The first move was to set up a meet with Jo . |
| 23 | All the players gave this exhibition free of charge and , with the resulting revenue , the trust was able to set up a fund with which to promote junior golf on Jersey . |
| 24 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 25 | Occasionally she went out with Diane from the neighbouring flat , and once made up a foursome with one of Diane 's boyfriends and another man . |
| 26 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 27 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 28 | They also open up a breach with scholarly orthodoxy which BT was to make final . |
| 29 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes , I might follow up a tape with a phone call . |