Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ No , sweetie , ’ said Dotty , snatching up a twist of cotton wool and wiping the carmine from Stella 's cheeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 8 | Poopathy is chosen to liaise between the women and ERA , and the group draws up a plan of action . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | England started in the team tournament with a 4–2 victory over Austria to open up a chance for bronze or silver medal . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 15 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |
| 16 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 17 | The age-old method of casting bells was to make a clay mould of the inside shape of the bell , then build up a layer of beeswax round it to the shape and thickness of the finished bell . |
| 18 | The stand should be planned as early as possible by drawing up a checklist of everything required , checking limitations on stand design , drawing up a checklist of stand services required and a progress chart for the preparation of all products and exhibits , including their manufacture , transportation to the exhibition , assembly and dismantling . |
| 19 | Paige summoned up a shrug of indifference . |
| 20 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 21 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 22 | Goodman , and a combination of luck and good defending/ goalkeeping was sufficient to keep out Leeds when we managed to build up a head of steam . |
| 23 | HOW TO GET UP A HEAD OF ESTEEM . |
| 24 | The Acrylix brushes helped me to make broad , glazing strokes , slowly building up a depth of colour . |
| 25 | When staff tried to begin work by loading up a lorry with timber , the protestors simply took it off again until they stopped . |
| 26 | She snatched up a square of tissue paper , deftly swung and twisted it round a fat brioche . |
| 27 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 28 | setting up a Ministry of Transport . |
| 29 | The first was to draw up a structure of government which could serve to protect the people from government , from the danger of a tyranny of the majority in the legislature ; but the second aim was to protect the people from themselves . |
| 30 | And he carefully attempts to draw up a balance-sheet of union power , politics and prospects , going far beyond the clichés in which Grant deals . |