Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 2 | If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it . |
| 3 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 4 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 5 | If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house . |
| 6 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 7 | Food at Greenways is wholesome , fresh and plentiful ( Jill and Mike count on their guests working up a good appetite from walking ) with herbs and vegetables from the kitchen garden . |
| 8 | She was a war widow and worked round the clock in her efforts to bring up a young family by herself . |
| 9 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 10 | Without warning a big estate-car swung round a bend in the lane , its wheels throwing up a shower of mud and water . |
| 11 | She knew that she could put economic pressure on her neighbours to build up a bloc of states aligned to herself . |
| 12 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 13 | The information obtained will enable the offeror and its advisers to build up a public profile of the target . |
| 14 | He said that Lubavitch offered counselling for parents distressed by the prospect of their children throwing up a lucrative career for a life of prayer . |
| 15 | They circle the Earth repetitively and , as the Earth rotates eastwards below their orbital path , their instruments build up a picture of land and sea-surface conditions and the state of the atmosphere . |
| 16 | A typical occasion was when Thornton used his contacts to set up a meeting between the paper and the trade-union-sponsored Unity Bank to borrow £10,000 to keep things going for now , and to test the water for the millions of pounds that would be needed in the future . |
| 17 | His words set up a buzz in Sylvie 's mind . |
| 18 | He was gnawed and pinched with cold ; the scabs on his knees showed up a bright purple because of the cold and his nose was red and raw-looking . |
| 19 | So far , his efforts to set up a maintenance fund for Bemersyde have met with limited success . |
| 20 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 21 | As you know , Derek Jefferson is one of the sponsors of this week 's tournament and one of his ploys to drum up a bit more publicity is to arrange a tour of his factory . |
| 22 | For instance , a businessman could habitually send customers a typed standard contract and then negotiate on that , or , having had his lawyers draw up a special contract on one occasion , he could start to use this on subsequent occasions as if it were a precedent . |
| 23 | In the end Purvis and his records opened up a new world for me , starting on that very first dinner when we played Beethoven 's Archduke Trio , the one in B flat major , ‘ Opus 97 , ’ he added casually . |
| 24 | In 1951 , during the period of the Vietnamese uprising against the French colonial rule , he walked through his country 's rich tropical forests to China , where he and his colleagues set up a temporary university . |
| 25 | Based upon the outcome of your discussions draw up a worksheet and enter the above transactions . |
| 26 | We did not have an echo chamber at CBR , so when Lance Sieveking required an echo effect our engineers set up a microphone in the gentlemen 's washroom where the reverberation off tiled walls and floor gave the desired effect . |