Example sentences of "[verb] up an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 2 | Make up an advertisement to ‘ sell ’ yourself . |
| 3 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 4 | Observers predict that industry may set up an equivalent to Duales System Deutschland ( DSD — the national waste collecting company established in the wake of the consumer packaging law ) . |
| 5 | I would normally set up an area to the right of the input range but for ease of taking screen dumps I have here gone lower down — do not copy my example in a real database that is going to grow bigger ! |
| 6 | " Early " is deictic here , but only inasmuch as it sets up an opposition to a notional " late " . |
| 7 | He was educated at Wix 's Lane School , Battersea , leaving at the age of fourteen to take up an apprenticeship to a firm of fur dealers for three years . |
| 8 | Referring to recent events in the Soviet Union , Vellayati said on Aug. 28 that he hoped this would help speed up an end to the civil war . |
| 9 | In 1839 the government set up an inspectorate to further central supervision of the way the growing state aid was being spent . |