Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 2 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 3 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 4 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 5 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 6 | Gookey , 21 , has made rapid progress at 200 metres this year but will line up second favourite for that event and for the 100 metres , which he won last year , if Sale 's European junior champion attempts a sprint double at Blackpool . |
| 7 | An inability to work up any enthusiasm for an Everton attack . |
| 8 | We 're trying to work up some passion for the pageant . |
| 9 | Nearly 1,000 tots line up each year for the championship , swimming in competitive matches about once every three weeks during the winter months . |
| 10 | I ca n't see the band picking up decent airplay for new single Inside Of Me , Inside Of You , as a mishmash of noise in the song is n't exactly daytime friendly material . |
| 11 | Cusick himself remained the unsung creator of the Daleks for many years , picking up little recognition for his work . |
| 12 | Another 54 food handlers in Hartlepool have proved they know all about serving up safe food for their customers . |
| 13 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 14 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 15 | Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant . |
| 16 | Fireworks is chartered to co-ordinate varied but related businesses to ensure early marketing of leading-edge multimedia systems ; create joint ventures and alliances with other firms ; put up initial funding for promising , pioneering multimedia services under development by entrepreneurs outside IBM ; and take responsibility for IBM 's worldwide multimedia marketing strategy and co-ordinate it across lines of business . |
| 17 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 18 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 19 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 20 | These examples illustrate the extent to which biblical scholarship opened up new territory for the arts . |
| 21 | Can you work up any sympathy for them ? |
| 22 | She had an artist friend print up some material for her , using a picture that showed her in profile . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't think you could keep up such softness for long . |
| 24 | They can not keep up this luminosity for long , however , and they should have burnt out long ago . |
| 25 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 27 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 28 | The women 's days are beginning to include the mix of activities , experiences and relationships which make up ordinary life for most people . |
| 29 | Now when Mike gets up each morning for breakfast Natasha jumps into their bed and nestles up to Diana . |
| 30 | To make sure you 're not dishing up any trouble for you or your family during the forthcoming festivities , Domestos has some simple hygiene rules to follow in the kitchen |