Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westerners come and go , crowding into the Marriott , Warsaw 's only top-class hotel , but few bother to set up shop . |
| 2 | This means taking up courts on Friday nights , which are always busy . ’ |
| 3 | On the other hand , there are battery chargers which can be run off a car 's lighter-socket , and this does open up possibilities for running camcorders at locations such as remote camp sites which do not have a public mains power supply . |
| 4 | Other graduates continue with economics at the postgraduate level ; some have taken up posts as economic advisers in Africa . |
| 5 | That seemed to sum up Robinson 's attitude when , within weeks of becoming ‘ Lord High Everything ’ in the playing administration , he gladly handed over many of his responsibilities to a new team manager , Mike Hendrick . |
| 6 | Cos it 's pointless keep making up loads of paints when other people have already mixed the colour up . |
| 7 | We 're very obsessed with things called viewing figures in television and I worked out quite simply that if everybody among the eleven million people who are supposed to view Keeping Up Appearances every Sunday , popped a penny into a money box for Save The Children Fund one Sunday night , that would raise a hundred and ten thousand pounds within an hour , now why do n't we get going and encourage people to do that . |
| 8 | Wright ( Finch and Groves , 1983 ) reports a small survey of single carers from which women were more likely to have given up employment than men in order to care for parents , sometimes giving up secure and well paid work when in their late forties or earlier fifties . |
| 9 | Difficulties created by local authority boundaries , especially where policies differ sharply and where these divide built up areas are well described . |
| 10 | Every available battery was brought to bear on the French guns , but many of these had taken up position behind the parapets of the forts clustered on the Bois Bourrus ridge and were consequently most difficult to hit . |
| 11 | These include making up boxes and tubs , and suggesting suitable garden planting plans . |
| 12 | These include putting up wall panelling , boxing in a radiator and making picture frames — all accompanied by step-by-step instructions and clear , easy-to-follow diagrams . |
| 13 | These have given up part of their holdings to provide GSR with its shareholding . |
| 14 | ‘ I hear you 're all set to pick up Bonanza 's five grand , ’ was his greeting . |
| 15 | ‘ In the early Fifties , we all started setting up Resistance networks again , all over Europe , when it looked as if the Soviets were going to come west on the next train : , The Air Force was particularly interested : escape routes for aircrew and so on . |
| 16 | you 're too late to have ended up knock for knock . |
| 17 | Almost all had brought up children of their own and 80 per cent had had voluntary experience in schools . |
| 18 | Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers . |
| 19 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 20 | Indian computer terminal manufacturer VXL Instruments Ltd has set up base in Rugby , Warwickshire in the UK . |
| 21 | There are good reasons for this : first , Corinth was an oligarchy , and in oligarchies , unlike democracies such as Athens after 462 , magistrates are not accountable to the same extent and there is less need to put up inscriptions . |
| 22 | It would probably be an area acceptable to those contemplating setting up home anew on retirement , and their previous homes would then be freed to each new generation of wealth-producers . |
| 23 | One liked coupling up coaches you see , and then the vestibules , the canvas vestibules joining the coaches together for passengers to walk through . |
| 24 | When Shepherd & wedderburn 's Paul Hally and Graham Barnet first suggested setting up Connections , a ‘ corporate finance marketing forum ’ in the form of a quarterly newsletter , ‘ we were very cautious and circumspect , simply going round saying ‘ we 've got this idea , we think it might work ’ , ’ said Hally . |
| 25 | With the appearance early in May of press comment hostile to the presence of foreign troops in Turkey , the Turkish authorities were reported by May 9 to have tightened up customs procedure for the movement of supplies through Turkey into northern Iraq by foreign military units . |
| 26 | Last winter 's storm damage pay outs have battered profits for the big insurance companies , and that threatens to push up house cover premiums . |
| 27 | This study has shown that with a prompting system diabetic care comparable to that of a hospital diabetic clinic can be provided in small inner city practices , and with a lower lost to follow up rate . |
| 28 | According to Electronic News , the two hope to wrap up negotiations within 60 days , but that terms for Encore to do Unix System V.4 and Oracle7 reference implementations for the Alpha , and possibly license its Unix clustering capabilities to DEC , are not yet finalised . |
| 29 | Nutty 's gone up north for more smelly Brits but I 'm not leaving my lovely villa and my roses so it 's civil war . |
| 30 | They each have grown up sons with severe learning difficulties and need to be at home . |