Example sentences of "up a [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 2 | Indeed , Bradford set up a home for Basque children up Manningham Lane , though it was largely financed by the Trades Council . |
| 3 | Essentially , they were administrators , who would have built up a following among other administrators who supported their attitudes and often owed their careers to them . |
| 4 | They had microwave ovens where he was able to heat up a portion of hot food to eat in the car . |
| 5 | Wu Shih turned , leading them along the lang , the covered walkway , then up a twist of wooden steps and out on to a broad gallery above a concealed lake . |
| 6 | A joint committee was empowered to draw up a plan for mutual inspections . |
| 7 | So the question is this : if the developing property relations and pattern of financial flows within British capitalism increasingly open up a space for socialist argument in favour of planned investment to benefit both ‘ workers ’ and ‘ savers ’ ( substantially overlapping categories ) , how is that space to be exploited ? |
| 8 | It is the DRO 's job to find suitable employment for the disabled and this entails building up a knowledge of suitable work available in the locality and of sympathetic employers , as well as discussing the individual disabled person 's particular problems and inclinations . |
| 9 | PROP up a bed of floppy flowers with steel in plastic Link-Stakes , which link to follow the contours of the plants . |
| 10 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 11 | to keep up a pretence of social co-operation . |
| 12 | THE National Information Forum is drawing up a directory of hospital-based services for disabled people . |
| 13 | A little while later Matilda bought up a bucket of steaming water . |
| 14 | Cohesion is maintained by building up a structure of consensual decision-making to make every individual feel an important participant . |
| 15 | This involved an attempt to accurately define the organisational and administrative needs of business over the next decade and , within this context , to draw up a taxonomy of secretarial skills suitable for this environment . |
| 16 | J K Galbraith drew up a range of alternative situations as shown on the next page : |
| 17 | A knowledge of Gaelic increases the options open to Scottish Ethnology students and opens up a range of additional sources for Highland and , to some extent , Scottish History . |
| 18 | ‘ A successful well on 47/3e would open up a range of interesting options regarding development schemes and export routes for gas in the area using existing infrastructure , ’ added Moult . |
| 19 | From the fetid depths of his mind , Bataille dredged up a fantasy of human evolution one part pseudo-science , one part myth ; as the apeman became homo erectus , all the erotic energy vested and mind . |
| 20 | ( John Searle , the Reith Lecturer in 1984 , built up a critique of computational psychology around considerations such as these . ) |
| 21 | He picked up a rosary of cheap light beads that lay coiled in an alabaster ashtray on a side table near the door . |
| 22 | Line up a row of pretty jam jars on the kitchen windowsill and fill them with daffodils , for example . |
| 23 | The 42-year-old millionaire would slash interest rates to three per cent and set up a board of go-ahead businessmen to help industry . |
| 24 | Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support . |
| 25 | I 'm sure he must be joking , but he picks up a pair of liquorice-coloured Everlasts and walks to the ring apron . |
| 26 | He held up a pair of shiny black patent shoes . |
| 27 | to draw up a framework for graduated tests which would include a specification of their content , context , and alternative schemes for defining levels of performance ; |
| 28 | These include DED , who are engaged in supporting a range of training initiatives and in supporting agencies such as Worknet , which Liam Parker will be talking about later — LEDU , who have set up a variety of new schemes in addition to their normal support for business within the Belfast Special Action Group area , which includes West Belfast — and , perhaps to a lesser extent , IDB , who have recently held a local Sourcing Exhibition in Andersonstown Leisure Centre aimed at encouraging small local firms to apply for contracts with larger firms and public bodies . |
| 29 | However , burying a pet in your garden may stir up a variety of unexpected emotions shortly afterwards . |
| 30 | He looked desperately around for a weapon , picked up a bowl of hot soup and threw it at Edgar , who started screaming . |