Example sentences of "[to-vb] up an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 2 | He was the largest and hairiest and pimpliest and dirtiest of them all , not at all the sort of person you would wish to meet up an alley on a dark night . |
| 3 | Somehow the words ‘ dietary fibre ’ do tend to conjure up an image of being put out to graze on food that has all the comfort and flavour of that consumed by a sheep or a cow . |
| 4 | Benny was n't going to pass up an opportunity like this . |
| 5 | ‘ I like to work up an appetite for my breakfast . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An STC spokesman explained that the £1.7m sale was made by Mr Walsh to escape the rising cost of the loan he took out to pick up an option on 1 million STC shares in February . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lachlan , racing out to set up an ambush for his nephew , insisted against his shipmaster 's warning on taking a corner just too neat , and stranded his birlinn just off the Rubha Aird Druimnich . |
| 11 | My resolve to set up an inquiry into the social security system was strengthened by one other important factor . |
| 12 | It requested him " to direct the Board of Education to set up an inquiry into the present state of the education of the deaf or to direct that a combined system of oral and manual instruction should be adopted in the schools for the deaf " . |
| 13 | The government agreed to a 100 per cent pay increase , to meet demands for job security , to index wages to inflation , to set up an inquiry into the current salaries of health workers and teachers , to reinstate all workers dismissed since March , and to involve the unions in revising the Civil Service Law . |
| 14 | The League is now calling on the Government to set up an inquiry into the disposal of farm animals which fail to go through the proper slaughter-house and food production system . |
| 15 | Observe now what happens when we attempt to set up an equation like 6 using a portion of a sentence which is clearly not a semantic constituent . |
| 16 | If it is intended to set up an exhibition in the foyer at ( note address omitted ) , it is necessary to book the foyer area , and to ensure sufficient display boards will be available : |
| 17 | The participants voted to set up an Association for Communication and Theological Education to carry forward the discussions held at Yale . |
| 18 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 19 | Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen . |
| 20 | The government in January 1990 agreed to set up an investigation into political murders in the states of Michoacán and Guerrero . |
| 21 | They urged the President to hold a police inquiry into the killings and called on Congress to set up an investigation into links between the police and the death squads . |
| 22 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 23 | Most important of all , there was enough money to set up an office as party headquarters at 190 Vauxhall Bridge Road . |
| 24 | This Association has been instrumental in getting the APA to adopt guidelines on non-sexist language and practices , and to set up an office for Women 's Programmes . |
| 25 | Our transsexual flatmate was one of the main organisers of the campaign , and we were all active supporters — not least by paying the rent for LAMBDA to set up an office in our squat . |
| 26 | Will he also allow it to set up an embassy in London ? |
| 27 | 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. |
| 28 | Dutta said Guppy also asked him to set up an account in Geneva which he used to channel nearly £500,000 following the fake robbery and insurance payout . |
| 29 | Ought we to put up an exhibition in the local library , or outside the CEO 's office ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Would you like me to fix up an audience with the King here ? |