Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Melanie has recently been bitten on the arm through diving between them to break up a fight . |
| 2 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 3 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 4 | It was too early for me to think up a brilliant reply . |
| 5 | Work on restoring the Wimpy to its former self is proceeding well , thanks to its loyal band of workers , many of whom give up a considerable amount of spare time to work on the aircraft . |
| 6 | He was soon joined by his brother and the two of them set up a practice in the Army and Navy Mansions on Victoria Street . |
| 7 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 8 | The long , regimented day , six of which made up a working week , obviously constrained the recreational possibilities for factory workers . |
| 9 | The subject had seemed to be taboo ; and he himself had in a way pressed her down into his mind because thoughts of her conjured up a feeling tinged with regret and shame , centred round a scene in the bedroom and the rage of his mother . |
| 10 | You were so successful at it that in the end you could vanish without leaving a soul behind sufficiently concerned about you to kick up a fuss — only a solicitor worried about the legal hang-ups , and especially the money ! |
| 11 | For you to pick up a |
| 12 | Lengthy booklists are expensive and dull : with some time and effort it will be possible for you to build up a personal library and reference system which is individually geared to your particular needs , and one which helps you to build on your existing knowledge rather than attempting to start again from scratch . |
| 13 | As a result , the public , the press and MPs are often starved of the material with which to make up a counter-argument . |
| 14 | Obviously , an employee is free to apply for another position even with a rival of his present employer , or to find premises in which to set up a future business so long as in doing so he is not in breach of any valid express term in his employment contract : see Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 . |
| 15 | The schools were given six weeks in which to draw up a register of parents , but decisions had first to be made about what constituted a parent . |
| 16 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 17 | ‘ The climate makes this a good place in which to bring up a child . |
| 18 | And while she drew , one of the many voices inside her set up a repeated chant , ‘ What should I do ? |
| 19 | It was important for him to build up a body of allies to ensure his succession on his father 's death , but he overreached himself , was regarded as a rebel and was killed , after being defeated in battle by Chlothar . |
| 20 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 21 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 22 | This has led to me setting up a very enthusiastic and committed core group which has given itself five years to complete the assessment and documentation needs to cover the Region . |
| 23 | So come on everyone gather up a party and dance the night away . |
| 24 | With financial support from the DES , the Language Teaching Centre is investigating the feasibility of recruiting trained foreign language teachers , particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has a considerable surplus , and reschooling them in a custom-made , one term induction course prior to their taking up a teaching-post in a British school . |
| 25 | This is one of the most providential days of the year when the onus is on you to take up an idea and run with it . |
| 26 | He reached the cocktail cabinet and leaned over it to scoop up a couple of two-hundred-year-old goblets . |
| 27 | The likeliest explanation seemed to be that , in the autumn of 1986 , Control had indicated to the DEA that Coleman had worked for the DIA in the past but , as he was no longer active , the agency had no objection to his taking up a consultant 's job with Hurley on Cyprus . |
| 28 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 29 | Max made us nail everything so that nobody had to put reverb on anything to cover up a mistake . |
| 30 | I was waiting for it to show up an confront us . |