Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 2 | On reflecting about the activities of the last year I looked up enterprise in ’ Roget 's Thesaurus ’ . |
| 3 | When I got home I looked up Fauré in the Oxford Companion . |
| 4 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 5 | ‘ I picked up Kate in this nice old Rover . |
| 6 | Well , I er er I picked up I picked up er I picked up people in London , but , locally locally er I went er individually . |
| 7 | I ended up dining in a Pizza Hut in the basement of the shopping centre , the only customer in the place . |
| 8 | Once you start paying the full rate , you build up benefits in your own right . |
| 9 | Q. So how would you sum up progress in the last two to three years ? |
| 10 | Will you take up residence in France ? ’ |
| 11 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 12 | WordStar makes it easy for you to add up numbers in a document . |
| 13 | She gave up Giorgio in return for custody of the girl . |
| 14 | Ollie remember that time when we beat up Paul in ? |
| 15 | The robot business began to look brighter as we built up experience in putting the machines to work . |
| 16 | ‘ My prime concern was to get an overview of the main environmental concerns we would face if we set up operations in the area , ’ he explained . |
| 17 | The ladies are monitored very carefully and scanned and sometimes they pick up cancer in another part of the body which |
| 18 | He assured me they never put dogs down and they would try to help her build up trust in humans again before finding her a home . |
| 19 | They used up space in the vans , required time to unload and ultimately made the shops look messy . |
| 20 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
| 21 | They set up house in No. 93 , which was now to let . |
| 22 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 23 | When blindness compelled him to give up farming in 1966 he learned Braille and carried on with his public duties , being much in demand as a witty public speaker . |
| 24 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 25 | If they gave up territories in exchange for the surrender of Aquitaine , these would have to be held feudally in dependence of the crown of France . |
| 26 | They take up residence in some numbers in marsh and swampland . |
| 27 | Well really , what I 'm trying to tell the children is that plants need water , it drinks up water in order to live . |
| 28 | After leaving Eton , he built up interests in food , clothing , pharmaceuticals , shops , mining and forestry . |
| 29 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 30 | Hitler cemented the German-Hungarian alliance by allowing Hungary to annex Ruthenia and a strip of Southern Slovakia when he carved up Czechoslovakia in 1939 . |