Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work . |
| 3 | Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information . |
| 4 | Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars . |
| 7 | Under this Resolution , it was agreed to set up a Committee on Cultural Affairs , and that the Commission should implement actions decided on by the Council that were to be implemented at Community level . |
| 8 | Everyone wished to be buried there , or at least to set up a cenotaph on hallowed ground . |
| 9 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 10 | Independently , or in conjunction with BAIE or IPR or others , I hope to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications , and wonder whether the PCC could be persuaded to be represented ? |
| 11 | I am trying to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications ( which may also touch on more general issues of ethics and management ) — do you have any relevant texts of which you might send me a complimentary copy and to which reference could be made in the publicity for what should prove a stimulating event ! |
| 12 | Figure 9 shows how to set up a tripod on a slope . |
| 13 | This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis . |
| 14 | The Law Societies ' of England and Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have funded a team of researchers led by lecturer Dr Julian Lonbay , to draw up a report on the professional qualifications and training of lawyers , in order to help them determine how to implement the EEC Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration , which comes into force on 4 January 1991 . |
| 15 | For his part , Corbett could only fret and decided to draw up a memorandum on what he had learnt so far : |
| 16 | This is to enable us to continue to build up a database on the application of our provision in response to special needs . |
| 17 | The age of the children , their number , the ability of the wife to earn a second income at home , whilst the elder children helped run the boat , the responsibility for dependent relatives , the possibility of sharing a house : such factors governed the decision to keep up a home on the land . |
| 18 | For the last , steepest section we all had to climb up a couloir on foot . |
| 19 | Mr Izetbegovic delivered the appeal for intervention as Muslim defenders of the town of Visegrad , 75 miles south of Zvornik , threatened to blow up a dam on the Drina river and flood a large lake if they sighted Serbian territorial defence members , Tanjug news agency reported . |