Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 2 | I thought , I du n no picked up a guarantee for twenty quid . |
| 3 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 4 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 5 | Mona , who had her daughter Soraya and a nanny with her , also picked up the tab for expensive dinners at trendy restaurants . |
| 6 | ‘ So do I. We 've had the spy-glass trained on his approach bearing and they 'd have picked up an explosion for sure . ’ |
| 7 | In each case the company has built up a reputation for reliability and high quality . |
| 8 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 9 | ‘ And now you 've built up an appetite for sampling some of the fish which may have been brought ashore here ? ’ |
| 10 | The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ . |
| 11 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 12 | He had saved up the site for the right feeling . |
| 13 | And in 1949 Commander Kerans on bringing the damaged Amethyst , bottled up the Yangtse for two months by the communists , to the safety of the open sea : ‘ Have rejoined the fleet south of Woosung . |
| 14 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 15 | He 's drawn up a route for a walk to the South Pole … of Mars , that is . |
| 16 | SAVE , working with the Jubilee Hall campaign , had drawn up a scheme for alternative use , which involved building on the adjacent empty site . |
| 17 | Ron Mardle has drawn up a plan for the dismantling , and we have dug out round the base and marked up some key parts of the vehicle for future recognition . |
| 18 | They have drawn up a Strategy for Success , which will be outlined at a meeting on Thursday , when they are urging all members to attend . |
| 19 | With the help of a small committee , chairman of rugby Dave Waddington has drawn up a Strategy for Success , designed to improve the playing and financial structure of the club . |
| 20 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 21 | The delight of the Gloucester supporters was in no way diminished by the fact that Barnes had missed three easy kicks at goal , any one of which would have wrapped up the game for Bath . |
| 22 | No disrespect is meant to Neil Kinnock to say that his departure from the leadership has opened up a space for debate that simply could not have existed under his regime . |
| 23 | I have opened up a dealership for North Humberside and can now try out as many machines as I like . |
| 24 | ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’ |
| 25 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 26 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 27 | My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two . |
| 28 | If someone had got up a petition for that bloke who refused to pay his ticket because the heating did n't work , I would have signed it . |
| 29 | Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months . |
| 30 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |