Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 2 | From experience and familiarity he or she builds up a mental pictorial encyclopaedia based on study of museum collections , information from archaeological research and accumulated knowledge from books and papers describing objects of particular periods and cultures . |
| 3 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 4 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 5 | The significant event is the landing of Goodbody 's patrol behind enemy lines in North Africa , where they set up an ‘ advanced-area cricket pitch ’ , for the purpose of ‘ morale ’ and to impress a visiting military VIP as ‘ a small patch of sanity ’ . |
| 6 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 7 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 8 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 10 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 11 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 12 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 13 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 14 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 15 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 16 | The Moon was so angry with the hare 's evasions that she picked up a hatchet to chop off his head , but missed her aim and cut the hare on the mouth . |
| 17 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 18 | This is analogous to a script language or batch file , in that you set up a file transfer transaction which can be repeated every day , short-cutting the need to highlight and copy individual files . |
| 19 | This means that you drag up a documents giving directions about how you wish to be treated if later on you can not make your wishes known because you have suffered a serious accident or are very ill . |
| 20 | One night he nearly caught her , so she climbed up a lamppost. and waited until he had gone . |
| 21 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 22 | Once you build up a regular routine you will want to get outside whatever the weather is doing . |
| 23 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 24 | The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst . |
| 25 | Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table . |
| 26 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 27 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 28 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 29 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 30 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |