Example sentences of "[vb pp] up an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The under-16 team recently picked up an award as the most sporting girls ' rugby team and have completed a very successful season ; eight girls have been selected for the Lancashire under-18 team and three for the under-13 team . |
| 2 | ‘ So do I. We 've had the spy-glass trained on his approach bearing and they 'd have picked up an explosion for sure . ’ |
| 3 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 4 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 5 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 6 | ‘ And now you 've built up an appetite for sampling some of the fish which may have been brought ashore here ? ’ |
| 7 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 8 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 9 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 10 | It was only ten minutes , as she had used up an hour in the swimming-baths . |
| 11 | General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape … |
| 12 | The Board of Trade promptly set up an enquiry into the industry and its methods and techniques . |
| 13 | BP Chemicals has set up an enquiry into the incident and the site has been visited by representatives of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 14 | Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’ |
| 15 | Meanwhile 88Open , which boasts that some 80% of its business comes from Europe , has set up an office in the UK , under the charge of Steve Heath , previously from Motorola 's semiconductor operation . |
| 16 | He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) . |
| 17 | There Is a vast backdrop-like painting — 200 feet long by twelve feet high — against which is set up an array of further paintings , drawings and sculptures , some of which incorporate scientific writing . |
| 18 | He will also be aware that Gwynedd has set up an inquiry into those incidents . |
| 19 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |
| 20 | In the meantime MEB has set up an inquiry into what happened . |
| 21 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 22 | What you do n't want to do is run up an overdraft in the hope no one will notice . |
| 23 | Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles , a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences . |
| 24 | But the survey has also thrown up an anomaly between the north and south . |
| 25 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 26 | The affair , he believes , is evidence of a deep-seated political campaign against the police , of which the most recent evidence is the fact that Balwinder Gill , late of the SMG , has now taken up an appointment as a race officer with Hounslow council . |
| 27 | Christine Hoogenkamp has taken up an appointment as Editor with the press office of the Netherlands Reformed Church in Leidschendam . |
| 28 | The client has now taken up an appointment in computing . |