Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] of [noun] " 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 | ‘ No , sweetie , ’ said Dotty , snatching up a twist of cotton wool and wiping the carmine from Stella 's cheeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 7 | Poopathy is chosen to liaise between the women and ERA , and the group draws up a plan of action . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |
| 11 | They 've also got up a selection of works by contemporary Latin American artists . |
| 12 | Presenting a very sanitized view of Pitt 's career , the film ends up a hagiography of Churchill . |
| 13 | Perk up a chest of drawers , cupboards or a wardrobe with a new set of handles . |
| 14 | And I might , I think I 'll put in there , I 'll make him up a basket of goodies with erm a few telephone stamps on a card and ooh I do n't know what . |
| 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 League drew up a scale of reductions whereby players on £5 a week ( the maximum ) took a 15 per cent cut and these on £3–4 a 5 per cent cut , the money saved going into a fund to help clubs in financial straits . |
| 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 | TOUR operator Airtours has set up a hit-squad of inspectors to seek out and axe shoddy Continental hotels . |
| 19 | You could draw up a checklist of topics which are of current concern to your students to help you select suitable items from news programmes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Draw up a checklist of queries ( eg What does it do ? |
| 22 | Paige summoned up a shrug of indifference . |
| 23 | Pick up a heap of leaves at one point . |
| 24 | He has therefore built up a heap of images which express something about a place and its people but also includes his own relationship to the world — what he likes , thinks and feels . |
| 25 | He has therefore built up a heap of images which express something about a place and its people but also includes his own relationship to the world — what he likes , thinks and feels . |
| 26 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | HOW TO GET UP A HEAD OF ESTEEM . |
| 29 | The Acrylix brushes helped me to make broad , glazing strokes , slowly building up a depth of colour . |
| 30 | In all cases , they had purchased an ill-afforded shoeshine for the occasion and begged someone — the mothers of the infants , Davide supposed to spruce up a suit of clothes , by dangling a magnificent future before them , and then wrapped their proof in a newly-washed blanket . |