Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention of the IB is clear ; it is to clean up the game at all levels particularly the shop window of the internationals . |
| 2 | Page two , trying to pick up the bit at over the bottom of the door . |
| 3 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 4 | A survey of 17 major organisations that had shown interest in joining TOPP , but had later decided not to go ahead , found that although many were still enthusiastic and hoped to set up a scheme at some time in the future , several of them saw cost as a major deterrent . |
| 5 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 6 | The common way to set up a school at this time was by means of a chantry . |
| 7 | Paragraph 29 of the statement of claim alleges that the third and fourth defendants and through them , the fifth defendant were ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the breaches of section 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 in four specified respects , namely , ( i ) in authorising the transfer of a sum of U.S. $250,000 out of an account in the name of the second defendant into which investors ' money had been paid ; ( ii ) in making arrangements during the postal strike in September 1988 for the collection from investors of their cheques and for the distribution of advertisements inviting investment in Euramco ; ( iii ) in paying investors ' cheques into Pantell S.A. 's bank account ; and ( iv ) in attempting to set up an account at Barclays Bank 's Holborn branch for another company , also called Pantell S.A. |
| 8 | Cardiff saw its hideously burnt and decomposed head turn to look up the stairwell at them , just as Jimmy and Rohmer heaved the filing cabinet over . |
| 9 | For Prescot Round Table is preparing to light up the sky at Rainhill Hospital . |
| 10 | Steve suggested drily , bending down to mop up the water at her feet . |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 12 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |
| 13 | Yes , it 's for the dictionary project , we 're doing a , erm we 're trying to build up a database at the moment of transcribed spoken language . |
| 14 | Add to that a steamer trunk full of footwear , a stack of rather lavish hatboxes ( occupied ) and enough jewellery to start up a stall at St George 's market , and you get the idea that Pat just might be an out and out fashion fanatic . |
| 15 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 16 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 17 | The present project aims to speed up the process at both the collection and analysis stages , by the development of software which will operate with speed , simplicity and flexibility , while the use of a portable computer will make it possible to enter material direct on to disc . |
| 18 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 19 | Can he do anything to speed up the rate at which the link between the M4 at Swindon and the M5 at Gloucester is increased to dual carriageway status throughout its length ? |
| 20 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 21 | But the highlight of it was that I used to get a ride on the dray and I used he he we used to finish up the round at the bottom of erm Road , and Street . |
| 22 | Dealers at Harvard Securities found it amusing to ring up a client at 8.20 am. and to interrupt his shaving , breakfasting , or love-making in order to press him into buying stock . |
| 23 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 24 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 25 | Together they barely had time to take up a position at the far door , seize a loaded gun , drop to one knee , and aim as , with a final heave , the bulging mass of bodies exploded into the room , followed by the living . |
| 26 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 27 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 28 | He held rival services until his return to Britain in 1852 to take up a stipend at Lee in Lincoln , when he was succeeded at the Beco Chapel by a Mr Hossmer . |
| 29 | This flexibility includes job mobility , which may require you to do different jobs in the office , or being asked to take up a job at another office within a reasonable travelling distance . |
| 30 | PETER Stefanini , managing director of Anglo United subsidiary Coalite Chemicals , is leaving to take up a directorship at Croda International . |