Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.

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1 Joe saw an opportunity to get the couple to visit a branch to pick up a ‘ replacement ’ card but when they arrived the police moved in and detained them .
2 It is clear from the Kanunname that the movement of scholars into other fields than the learned profession is envisaged : if a candidate for office in the learned profession , that is , a wishes to take up a military career instead , he is to be given a fief yielding 20,000 akce ; and Sahn muderrises and 300-akce kadis may hold the office of defterdar , and the first two may also become nisanci ; and 500-akce kadis may become .
3 In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets .
4 Talks held on July 23 between the deputy chairmen of the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments , Yury Yazov and Vasiliy Dudinets respectively , ended with a decision to set up a joint parliamentary commission based in Sevastopol to supervise observance of the Dagomys agreement .
5 For example there may be a decision to set up an expensive data-processing facility in order to cut the costs of data-processing .
6 A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead .
7 If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one .
8 They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat .
9 I do n't know , maybe they erm a , they 'll listen to the tapes and they probably sample some of the words into a computer to build up a database of words that probably like you said , oh he 's getting a lot of jip from his boss , you know , is probably not in the dictionary but if a lot of people said that word then they would .
10 When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor .
11 My master read these through carefully like a clerk marking up a ledger .
12 Cheshire Railtours are planning a rail tour up the WCML to Carlisle and return via the S & C on Saturday 17th April 1993 , cost £20 .
13 a grant to set up an illicit still
14 Fishing from a punt opens up a whole new world .
15 An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’
16 A ladybird crawled up a dry stalk , then stepped delicately across to the oiled and battered stock of the rifle .
17 Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse .
18 I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal .
19 Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay .
20 As the Revenue only allow a 10% mark up the tax gains can not exceed 1.5% of the turnover put through the company .
21 Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules .
22 The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building .
23 Nearly half of the episcopal hierarchy refused the new oaths , and as a result opened up a schism in the Anglican Church .
24 In mid-January 1991 the Indian government announced a programme to clean up the 800-km long Yamuna River which flowed through Delhi before joining the Ganges at Allahabad , and was polluted by ( among other sources ) untreated chemicals from a major oil refinery at Mathura and several tanneries in Agra .
25 According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations .
26 THE French government has launched a programme to set up a nationwide telecommunications research network , in an effort to catch up with Britain 's JANET system and Germany 's DFN .
27 She knew that what I said was believable enough , since Vadinamia was a highly likely place for a courier to drum up a job conveying something somewhere .
28 Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ?
29 The question was left open in Davies v Flackett [ 1973 ] RTR 8 , where the accused drove off without paying from a car park while a stranger held up the barrier .
30 ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away .
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