Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One young person gave up a holiday to America just to help us . |
| 2 | He was shaking in his shoes , but said as calmly as he could , ‘ You roughed up a man from Belfast a few nights ago . ’ |
| 3 | Events are falling into place for setting up a work in Glasgow based within my home church , Queen 's Park Baptist . |
| 4 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 5 | Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent . |
| 6 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York . |
| 15 | Presenting a very sanitized view of Pitt 's career , the film ends up a hagiography of Churchill . |
| 16 | I honestly had n't read anything as interesting since I first picked up a novel by Thomas Hardy . ’ |
| 17 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 18 | 35 MINUTES : Ipswich regained the lead when Guentchev , thriving on having better support up front , picked up a ball from Whelan in his own half and sent a long ball for Goddard to chase through the middle . |
| 19 | Mr X sets up a trust in Jersey . |
| 20 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 21 | There are of course problems in bringing up a Down 's child which are not present , at least to the same degree , in bringing up a child without Down 's Syndrome . |
| 22 | Simultaneously French diplomats , as part of a sustained propaganda offensive , distributed the bulletins of the Grande Armée , set up a newspaper in Poland , and in Germany influenced others in favour of France and struggled to suppress those considered hostile to the emperor . |
| 23 | However , his first involvement was to break up a scuffle between Impey and Burrows , which brought Graeme Souness running onto the pitch to complain to the linesman — strange behaviour from a manager who , last month , was given a five-match touchline ban by UEFA . |
| 24 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 25 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 26 | The leases have brewed up a storm in Darlington as landlords say they could mean the end of many traditional pubs . |
| 27 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 28 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 29 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 30 | But Stephens set up a try for Nigel Davies just before half-time , and tries after the break by Boobyer and Evans settled the match . |