Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 30 , however , security forces broke up a rally by supporters of the UDPS , and unofficial reports claimed that two people were killed . |
| 2 | One young person gave up a holiday to America just to help us . |
| 3 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 5 | He was shaking in his shoes , but said as calmly as he could , ‘ You roughed up a man from Belfast a few nights ago . ’ |
| 6 | Events are falling into place for setting up a work in Glasgow based within my home church , Queen 's Park Baptist . |
| 7 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 8 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
| 9 | Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent . |
| 10 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 11 | There is therefore potential for such trusts to build up a stake in Newco for the benefit of employees on a much more tax-efficient basis than if employees themselves used their after-tax earnings to acquire shares and then had to pay income tax or capital gains tax when they disposed of them . |
| 12 | In 1861 she was instrumental in setting up a home for workhouse girls sent out to service , so that they would not have to mix with women of bad character . |
| 13 | ‘ No , sweetie , ’ said Dotty , snatching up a twist of cotton wool and wiping the carmine from Stella 's cheeks . |
| 14 | It is in the company 's interest to build up a relationship with Fund Managers in order that a position of trust and goodwill is created . |
| 15 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 16 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 17 | Poopathy is chosen to liaise between the women and ERA , and the group draws up a plan of action . |
| 18 | TERRY Waite passed up a chance of escape while he was held hostage because it would have meant shooting one of his captors , he reveals today . |
| 19 | England started in the team tournament with a 4–2 victory over Austria to open up a chance for bronze or silver medal . |
| 20 | Everywhere you go there are paintings of the Lakes and prints of the Lakes and stories about Visits to the Lakes , people building villas here now : there 's great interest , Mr Robinson , and that always opens up a space for trade . ’ |
| 21 | No disrespect is meant to Neil Kinnock to say that his departure from the leadership has opened up a space for debate that simply could not have existed under his regime . |
| 22 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 23 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |
| 24 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 25 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 26 | They 've also got up a selection of works by contemporary Latin American artists . |
| 27 | It has both acquired computer maintenance firm , Barcelona-based Morsa Mantenimiento de Ordensdores SA , which turned over $2.7m in 1991 and was also part of the Auguas de Barcelona Group , and last year , set up a subsidiary in Portugal , which it called LUMA . |
| 28 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices , has set up a subsidiary in Munich to support German distributor sales : it has existing operations in England and France and a joint venture in Japan . |
| 29 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |
| 30 | Yesterday officers from the City of London police set up a roadblock on Lower Thames Street — a scene which will now be repeated throughout the country . |