Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage .
2 He had described as " a fraud " the recent attempts under KGB chairman Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov to clean up the KGB 's public image and stress its role in fighting genuine crime .
3 Mr Yeltsin and Mr Khasbulatov agreed on Tuesday to set up a commission to negotiate a ‘ constitutional agreement ’ for dividing power between legislature and executive but parliament yesterday postponed debate on the subject until next Thursday .
4 This required LEAs to set up a careers service .
5 Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago .
6 Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station .
7 Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff .
8 from 's Group Information Services department at Ipswich took the opportunity to spend some time in the USA 18 months ago , when he went to in Kansas to set up an Information Technology department .
9 CW to draw up a list ( attached ) of new machine allocations and resultant re-allocations .
10 At the Manor today it 's been all quiet … the postman has delivered more applications … the board will meet either Friday or Saturday to draw up a shortlist
11 At the Manor today it 's been all quiet … the postman has delivered more applications … the board will meet either Friday or Saturday to draw up a shortlist
12 Duncan , at six feet eight inches , has a devastating service , and is now off to Texas to take up a tennis scholarship .
13 It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust .
14 After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports ,
15 Once those scenes had been completed , the carrier went back to North Island to pick up the replica aircraft and the two P–40s , and transported the entire group to Hawaii .
16 She said that two Daughters of Charity are going to Romania to set up a training programme for nursing staff and care assistants .
17 Kate bent over Nicandra to pick up the tray : ‘ And you did n't eat the half of it , ’ she said reproachfully .
18 Actors and dancers came to Alexander for advice ; he became a therapist and in 1900 moved to England to set up a practice in London .
19 It was Aer Lingus girl , Denise McCarthy , who caused the day 's biggest upset against the great Mary McKenna to set up a clash with Baltray 's pretty Oonagh Purfield for promotion to the last eight .
20 In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] .
21 She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France .
22 IT would be reasonable to suppose that dreams of following Daley Thompson have inspired Anthony Brannen to take up the world record holder 's former mantle as Britain 's leading decathlete .
23 Permission was obtained from the APU and HMSO to make up a test of APU items for the purpose of comparing different samples participating in the project .
24 Curtis looked extremely sharp in his 6–0 6–1 dismissal of Broxbourne 's Nick Lester to set up a final which , on paper , looked evenly balanced .
25 The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry .
26 I went down to Monte Carlo to set up a tournament and was privileged to be granted a meeting with the sports-mad Prince at the Palace .
27 Describing in today 's Sunday Times of Johannesburg how he found Stompie 's body in Mrs Mandela 's house , Morgan said : ‘ One morning I got to the house early and I was told by Winnie to pick up the dog and dump him .
28 She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village .
29 After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period .
30 Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months .
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