Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 2 | The pilot therefore set the aircraft up for a diversion to the nearest suitable airfield — RAF Wittering — using residual engine power . |
| 3 | Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language . |
| 4 | We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony . |
| 5 | Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it . |
| 6 | Mr Recorder Paul Worsley adjourned the case until Friday for social inquiry reports to be prepared because he was considering locking Largue up as a warning to other young drivers . |
| 7 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 8 | But he emphasised that he would not put himself up as a challenger to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | He went up as a commoner to Wadham College , Oxford , in 1858 , and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862 . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 11 | In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement . |
| 12 | And I 'm not setting that up as a record to be broken or a |
| 13 | The UK system is being put up as a model to the International council of Chemical Industry Associations . |
| 14 | In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham . |
| 15 | Earlier , on April 11 , the UN Council for Namibia , set up as an alternative to South Africa 's illegal rule , holding its first meeting on Namibian soil , voted to dissolve itself and to hand over its assets to the government . |
| 16 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 17 | Its experience and its entire organisation and operation are frequently held up as an example to the rest of the world . |
| 18 | I think we must have both picked it up during a visit to some relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 19 | They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each . |
| 20 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 21 | But his comment on her age was a throwaway one , it seemed , for he followed it up with a reference to his previous question by asking , ‘ Are you an only child ? ’ |
| 22 | My night of glory ended up with a hobble to the shower and a flop into bed — very athletic , eh ? |
| 23 | Six months later , in September , I followed this up with a circular to health authorities requiring them to put their services out to tender . |
| 24 | The attacker , sliding in closer , follows up with a punch to the face , which is once again blocked , this time with an outer block from a back stance . |
| 25 | Students frequently say they have done the recommended reading , taken the necessary notes and reviewed all their materials , but still can not come up with a solution to the problem posed . |
| 26 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |
| 27 | Like that of Curgenven , his own rising professional career was bound up with a commitment to expansionist sanitary reform . |
| 28 | Gallagher drove his right fist into his stomach and followed it up with a left to the mouth . |
| 29 | In early 1994 , it will follow up with a bridge to the next-generation Pentium with the P24T , a 32-bit , Pentium-class upgrade chip for 80486 machines . |
| 30 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |