Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus re-established Gehlen returned to Germany on the winning side to head up the CIA 's new Cold War against Russia . |
| 2 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 3 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 4 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 5 | But only a week ago she clashed with Mr Smith after he snubbed her request to wind up the Commons debate on the pit closures . |
| 6 | One of the most enduring memories is of the Labour Government having to go to the International Monetary Fund , ‘ cap in hand ’ , to ask for a loan to prop up the UK 's sagging economy . |
| 7 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 9 | There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said . |
| 10 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 11 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 12 | The EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market . |
| 13 | A UN General Assembly resolution on Oct. 15 called on the Cambodian leaders to co-operate and to exercise self-restraint , and welcomed the agreement to set up the SNC and to send an SNC representative to occupy Cambodia 's seat . |