Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE US is sending envoys round the world to persuade developed nations to cough up money to help pay for US weather satellites . |
| 2 | Her topic was jealousy which she attributed to parents bringing up children to think they are unlovable . |
| 3 | Engineers draw up guidelines to stop interference |
| 4 | City Comment : Arabs set up tents to spike Midland 's plans |
| 5 | Really , two things brought up investigation to consider the first is with trusts the very important piece of work that 's done by trusts on behalf of the provence another provence may or may not know that there are the trusts have now been er , between trusts erm South Wales trusts erm |
| 6 | The resistance of the defenders of the alcazar was , for the anti-Republicans , symbolic of the whole Nationalist cause , with a minority of " true " Spaniards taking up arms to defend the Fatherland and Christian values against the onslaught of the hordes of anti-Christ and anti-Spain . |
| 7 | Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ . |
| 8 | Tamil Tigers give up war to enter political arena . |
| 9 | In summer , when the white trash Protestants from the rookeries of the Dock Road marched in honour of King Billy , the police put up barricades to stop the Catholic men from charging the procession . |
| 10 | The Act also empowers the police to set up roadblocks to discover whether vehicles contain anyone who has witnessed , committed or is about to commit a serious crime . |
| 11 | Throughout the day , thousands of troops patrolled central Peking , while police set up road-blocks to check cars in the city 's north-west university district of Haidian , the birthplace of China 's seven-week-long pro-democracy movement . |
| 12 | Police set up barricades to halt the marchers , who began burning cars . |
| 13 | We spent two or three hours bagging up clothes to take to the charity shops . |
| 14 | Unions step up campaign to save Welsh jobs |
| 15 | Unions to step up campaign to save Leyland |