Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leeds Permanent Building Society , for example , pays £5 to one of three charities for each customer who signs up for a Leeds Visa affinity card . |
| 2 | A derelict ship turns over on her keel and lies gracefully at rest , but there is only one way up for a Thames barge if she is to maintain her dignity . |
| 3 | It is just asking the public to sign up for a Barton by-pass . |
| 4 | Entranced by the aphrodisiacs in his prawn cocktail , McAvennie began to visit his new girl every weekend , flying to the London nightlife and eventually provoking a dispute with Celtic manager Billy McNeill when he failed to show up for a Monday morning training session . |
| 5 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 6 | Nina Hamnett dressed up as a Paris Apache , in a pair of French workman 's trousers , a blue jersey , corduroy coat and cap borrowed from Modigliani and a toy butcher 's knife . |
| 7 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 8 | The document also noted agreements reached on the setting up of a Maghreb Bank of Investment and Foreign Trade , on co-operation in legal , judicial , maritime and other fields and on trade and tariffs . |
| 9 | ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume . |
| 10 | A chap can be supervising a spiffing archaeological dig on the Eastern fringes of the Soviet Union one day , only to find himself banged up in a Moscow jail on highly dubious spying charges the next . |
| 11 | An acrimonious argument and clash of personalities flared up between the BMC and MLTB , which ended up in a London arbitration court that suggested a formula for reconciliation , Lord Hunt reported on the way forward : a key element being that the BMC should retain and foster its influence and activity in the training sphere . |
| 12 | In the case of Repton light-middleweight Leon Young , there was no encouraging influence at all as he was brought up in a Dr Barnardo 's home in Barkingside . |
| 13 | stake in National Power or PowerGen to bring pressure to bear on those companies to reduce the development of gas-fired stations , they might end up in a United Kingdom court for breaking United Kingdom company law . |
| 14 | we were close when I was in Washington , and whichever way you slice it he wo n't want my brother being buggered or beaten up in a New York jail . ’ |
| 15 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 16 | Kidderminster , Redditch , Blackpole and Worcester joined together to make their book donations and presented 32 books to eight local schools , all loaded up in a JS trolley . |
| 17 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 18 | He grew up in a San Jose barrio called Sal si Puedes ( get out if you can ) ; Mexican-Americans were treated as faceless serfs . |
| 19 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 20 | Born in 1945 , Sutton was brought up in a Nissen hut , the son of a mechanic and a hairdresser . |
| 21 | Once upon a time , long before fatwas and ayatollahs , the daughter of a shazdeh , or prince , grew up in a Tehran harem . |
| 22 | Shaun Taylor and a Craig Maskell hat-trick put Swindon 4-0 up before a Phil Chapple consolation . |
| 23 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 24 | ‘ They picked me up from a Sunday team near White Hart Lane when I was 11 and there are a lot like me , ’ Watson said . |
| 25 | You could move these to locations 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 , for conveniently calling them up from a MIDI pedal . |
| 26 | Well the , all the others go on a Saturday but Heidi said she would be in it if she did n't have to go on Saturday , every Saturday , because she goes riding you see at nine o'clock nine till four so er Wendy said oh she 'll have her up on a Sunday afternoon the two or three principals . |
| 27 | The bird 's gon na have to be ended up on a Sunday dinner somewhere in n it ? |
| 28 | what time do you have to get up on a Sunday morning ? |
| 29 | HEALTH fears over raw sewage washing up on a Fife beach have resulted in one local authority forcing another to clean up the pollution . |
| 30 | The refashioned story relates how two young people , both just over affairs , pick each other up on a Friday night at a swinging Manhattan singles bar , the then modish Maxwell 's Plum . |