Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 The trick is to use the person 's name to conjure up a picture in your mind .
2 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 .
3 I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith .
4 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 .
5 The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station .
6 France and Italy have agreed to set up a sanctuary in which dolphins will be protected from drift-net fishing .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 In permitting the bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency .
12 They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome .
13 Mazda is to set up a centre in Belgium to train staff in sales and after-sales service .
14 Mm about to set up a factory in Sri Lanka to make Morris Minor parts .
15 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 .
16 Mind workers are now planning to set up a marquee in the garden in Borough Road for the royal celebration .
17 An application to set up a pharmacy in the village , which would threaten the services offered by GPs in Four Marks and Ropley , had been turned down , but was due to go to appeal .
18 Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work .
19 Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent .
20 FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington .
21 Want to set up a table in document ?
22 To set up a database in a notebook , you arrange the data into columns and rows .
23 For the classical foundationalist programme of starting from one 's own case and moving outwards suffers from all the radical defects which face the solipsist 's attempt to set up a language in which to describe the experiences which form his subject matter .
24 Later , after Tanganyika had become British , the company producing the Standard was invited by Tanganyika 's governor to set up a paper in Dar es Salaam .
25 Actors and dancers came to Alexander for advice ; he became a therapist and in 1900 moved to England to set up a practice in London .
26 And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances .
27 Well , this , I told you about this French boy that phoned , that contacted me , he 's erm , my name is , I 'm nineteen , I 'm a student at Harlow College , I 'm studying English foreign language and Law A Level , if there 's an Amnesty International I would like to set up a group in the college I hope you 're involved in local groups are writing you to receive about me , and information about the local group .
28 If you need more information , ring Rape Crisis on 071-837-1600 ( do keep trying if you ca n't get through ) , and if you want to know how to set up a group in your area , write to Incest Survivors in Strength , c/o 34 , Margate Rd .
29 Four Romanians who are planning to set up a bakery in their own country have travelled to Gloucestershire to learn how to make the finest bread and cakes .
30 ‘ Look — the next time you want to set up a surveillance in London , do remember that we 're here to help .
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