Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must tell them that you want to pick up a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 2 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 3 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 4 | If the leaders of Anti-Racist Alliance want to build up an effective anti-racist movement , they should desist from the kind of stupid sectarianism that I witnessed at the recent March for Justice in the London borough of Newham . |
| 5 | Mr McGlory said : ‘ We want to start up a new Allinsonsaimed at a more mature clientele and including cabaret shows . |
| 6 | When a floorboard is difficult to lift or when you only want to take up a short piece , a floorboard saw is helpful . |
| 7 | Thinking about going abroad or just want to take up an exciting new pastime ? |
| 8 | We want to bring up a nice girl , not a little pig . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean serving up a one-legged chicken in front of all those guests . |
| 11 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 12 | Recognizing the need for the development of international law on liability and compensation arising from the transport or disposal of hazardous wastes , the resolution requested UNEP to set up a working group of experts on this issue . |
| 13 | And Leeds hope to wrap up a short-term deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner in the next three or four days . |
| 14 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 15 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 17 | You seem to take up an awful lot of energy and time . |
| 18 | Sub-headings seem to take up an inordinate amount of space ; do we really need separate headings for ‘ What is Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to use Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to carry Tincture of Benzoin ’ , and ‘ Where to buy Tincture of Benzoin ’ ? |
| 19 | I remember picking up a discarded newspaper and reading about a vicious gang attack on two young men , one of whom managed to escape . |
| 20 | ‘ I like to keep up a brisk pace . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 22 | You know when you 're waterskiing with a really powerful boat and you slant your skis as you curve to send up a whole curtain of water ? |
| 23 | Why then attempt to patch up an old overall as if one were repairing a sumptuous evening dress ? |
| 24 | Phillips says that ‘ at first we try to set up a good rapport and explore the range of powers claimed . |
| 25 | The skin is sandwiched between the bone and the shoe and continuous irritation and chafing causes skin to build up a protective bulwark until it is a thickened layer of dead , horny tissue . |
| 26 | In the meantime , try to keep up a social life and meet other people . |
| 27 | In the Old Testament , farmer Amos , with rustic bluntness , flays those who attempt to keep up a religious facade without matching conduct ; and James , his outspoken New Testament counterpart , exposes those who are " hearers of the word " but not " doers " of it . |
| 28 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 29 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 30 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |