Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
| 2 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 3 | In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany . |
| 4 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 5 | In 1932 she set up a facility at the Settlement Hall in Newport Road , teaching children basic skills , walking , and speech therapy . |
| 6 | Before dinner we 'll all go for a brisk walk along the beach and make sure we work up a nice big appetite . ’ |
| 7 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 8 | In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway . |
| 9 | A recent survey by the bank has discovered that people who have experience of unemployment before becoming self-employed tend to do better than those who give up a job to do so . |
| 10 | Low status of carers Those who give up a job or take early retirement to become a carer lose out financially , and in other ways , as has been well documented ( Finch and Groves , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 12 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 13 | In 1978 he took up a Senior Registrar post in Diabetes at the General Hospital , Birmingham , and in 1981 his present post as Consultant Physician at Dudley Road Hospital , Birmingham . |
| 14 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 15 | In 1961 he set up a working group , in the Ministry , ‘ to study the long term development of roads and traffic in urban areas and their influence on the urban environment ’ ; the leader was Colin Buchanan . |
| 16 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 17 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |
| 18 | Run For Free did his best to eject Mark Perrett seven from home , but apart from that he put up a superb display of jumping . |
| 19 | Well that 's really not our problem I mean that 's to do with the deregularization of er bus companies allowing any anybody to start up a bus company . |
| 20 | fantastic it stirs up a hornets nest . |
| 21 | In January 1857 he set up a " Secret Committee on the Peasant Question " to discuss ways in which the abolition of serfdom might be achieved . |
| 22 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 23 | Next he picks up a large flat stone and , holding it overhead , mutters a prayer and smashes the skull , twice . |