Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually we were n't too happy with the back of the old barn , because although we 'd tried to plug up every hole in the stonework , it was still possible for a determined young owl to squeeze out here and there . |
| 2 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 3 | The trick is to use the person 's name to conjure up a picture in your mind . |
| 4 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
| 5 | THEY may be trying to patch up the rift in their marriage . |
| 6 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 7 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 8 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 9 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 10 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 11 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 12 | So I 've got to ring Phil and see what time he 's going to pick up the freezer in the morning ? |
| 13 | The two sentences are not ‘ equivalents ’ of each other , but they are quoted here to show that , in spite of the fact that the last mention of the particular participant being traced is by pronominal reference in the English version and by a proper noun in the Portuguese version , English still prefers to pick up the reference in the new paragraph by means of a pronoun while Portuguese prefers lexical repetition . |
| 14 | The Sports Council was quick to pick up an interest in this group in the early 1980s when they included people up to the age of 59 in their target groups to encourage increased participation in sporting activities . |
| 15 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 16 | The next writer , Erica De'Ath , begins to open up the field in which child care needs arise , families and children , and the many changing patterns of family life which characterize the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 18 | County rang the changes desperately , sending on Slawson for Lund in an attempt to pep up an attack in which Farina , the striker on loan from Bari , made a rather featureless full debut . |
| 19 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 20 | France and Italy have agreed to set up a sanctuary in which dolphins will be protected from drift-net fishing . |
| 21 | This entire case depends on the assumption that the trust to set up a building in the town will be enforced in specie , The plea that payment should be allowed instead is ignored : the town has a greater interest in acquiring a ready-made building than in constructing or commissioning one itself . |
| 22 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 23 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 24 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 25 | In permitting the bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency . |
| 26 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 27 | Mazda is to set up a centre in Belgium to train staff in sales and after-sales service . |
| 28 | Mm about to set up a factory in Sri Lanka to make Morris Minor parts . |
| 29 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 30 | Mind workers are now planning to set up a marquee in the garden in Borough Road for the royal celebration . |