Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 2 | ‘ I like to work up an appetite for my breakfast . |
| 3 | He , they were late to bed I 'd had them erm round at the shops and then er er Queensway , then the shopping centre to pick up a card for for Chris . |
| 4 | He went over to pick up a coffee for himself , then came back over and sat down . |
| 5 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 6 | England started in the team tournament with a 4–2 victory over Austria to open up a chance for bronze or silver medal . |
| 7 | In the afternoon session there was an equally irritable wrangle over a proposal to adopt a law on compliance with the constitution , and to set up a committee for the purpose . |
| 8 | In 1989 , Cardiff City Council invited the Guild to set up a showcase for their work , as part of its temporary arts programme for the Old Library . |
| 9 | This chapter seeks to set up a scheme for language teacher education , a pragmatics of pedagogy , which incorporates these conditions for establishing relevance and provides for the furtherance of proper and profitable relations between theory and practice . |
| 10 | He was kissing her again , but with urgency now , the way his lips moved over hers calculated to set up a craving for more . |
| 11 | Mr Arnold questioned why he had not tried harder to set up a system for receiving such information more swiftly . |
| 12 | The merger of the TSA with the AFBD is also rationalised in terms of the increasing linkages between the securities and futures markets and the desire for both markets to set up a system for trading futures and options on a Euroindex of stocks . |
| 13 | Now they 're planning to set up a sanctuary for exotic wild animals . |
| 14 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 15 | It aims to make more information about Gerson available , fund research projects , and eventually it hopes to set up a centre for people who want to try it , in combination with psychological counselling , according to Renee Henry . |
| 16 | It would be an exciting and worthwhile challenge , for instance , to set up a centre for medicine with Urdu or French where professionals could receive additional training and which would also could become the focus for expertise and research in that area . |
| 17 | In 1826 , when the members of the British Factory were worried by reports that a daily newspaper was about to be published in Funchal , they decided to set up a find for the protection of any British subject attacked by the newspaper . |
| 18 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 19 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 20 | Q I plan to set up a tank for Tanganyikan cichlids . |
| 21 | In a commitment to set up a Department for Legal Administration , Labour 's alternative White Paper stated : |
| 22 | ‘ I want to set up a club for keen fly fishermen , all those anglers who pursue game fish like trout and salmon . |
| 23 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 24 | The brief descriptions of the récit and the first entrée ( shown in their entirety in illus.l ) suggest that the opening numbers of the ballet served not only to introduce the subject of the work , but to set up a mechanism for getting the musicians on stage . |
| 25 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
| 26 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 27 | The college wants to make the sale , sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners last summer , to set up a fund for maintaining and refurbishing its Founder 's Building , as well as caring for the remaining pictures . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The participants voted to set up an Association for Communication and Theological Education to carry forward the discussions held at Yale . |
| 30 | 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 . |