Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ? |
| 32 | ‘ Some savers like term shares where they tie their money up for a set period in return for a limited guarantee regarding the interest , ’ says Willis . |
| 33 | The experience of being an old person , a senior citizen , is imposed from outside , as for example people find when they first queue up for a retirement bus pass : ‘ The general expectation [ is ] that old people should be incompetent ’ ( Victor , 1987 , p. 265 ) . |
| 34 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 35 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 36 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 37 | All fired up for a marathon effort |
| 38 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 39 | Check your existing lender 's redemption charge before signing up for a replacement loan . |
| 40 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 41 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 42 | Denis and his new gang had the first and the last laugh … only 11 minutes had gone when Cusack set Chrissy Allen up for a prize goal … |
| 43 | They do n't just prove that it 's dangerous to fly , ski , skateboard or dress up as a Mutant Hero Ninja Turtle and try to act tough on the Northern Line late on a Saturday night . |
| 44 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 45 | Patrick Dempsey , who looks like Sean Penn without a scowl , plays Randy Bodek , a pizza delivery boy who ends up as a toy boy serving Beverly Hills women with ‘ extra anchovies ’ . |
| 46 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 47 | She then tried a government training course in shorthand and typing but , lacking confidence , ended up as a filing clerk . |
| 48 | Florida was opened up as a winter resort in the 1890s by Henrys Flagler and Plant , both millionaires and railroad company owners . |
| 49 | In any event , Heinz was off work for two months before embarking on a steady descent of menial jobs , ending up as a kitchen cleaner . |
| 50 | By that time hopefully I 'll be signed up as a crew member . |
| 51 | The Lord Jesus Christ is saying that all of the Scripture is summed up as a love relationship with God and a love relationship with our neighbour . |
| 52 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 53 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 54 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 55 | The type of er business you are setting up as a music teacher . |
| 56 | ‘ We set it up as a pilot programme to answer the call for more training in the field . |
| 57 | The French then developed a sexpartite vault , wherein the intermediate pier is carried up as a vaulting shaft to carry a rib which transfers the vaulting compartment into six . |
| 58 | The FSA 's position is clear the Football Licensing Authority , set up as a Government quango to impose all-seaters must widen its remit and become a national body to impose standards of safety and comfort . |
| 59 | Get y'rself up as a Geho'quein spine-toad or somethin ’ , come on down and mingle . |
| 60 | After six months as a house surgeon at Essex County Hospital , Colchester , he set up as a country doctor in the New Forest , his amusing recollections of which appeared in St. Bartholomew 's Hospital Journal ( 1933–5 ) . |