Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do you bring up a child like that ? |
| 2 | ‘ I shall definitely think twice before I put up a sign like this again . ’ |
| 3 | You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left ! |
| 4 | Do n't , for example , make up a story like |
| 5 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 6 | Make up a chart like this . |
| 7 | 5 Draw up a grid like the one shown but without these figures . |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that ! |
| 9 | Alabama must hope that somehow , some day , fate will throw up a candidate like Georgia 's Zell Miller or Arkansas 's Bill Clinton . |
| 10 | And , he said I do n't how you do this , you know , yo I really do n't know how you manage to run up a bill like that . |
| 11 | I seriously doubt if it would be possible to put up a climb like this without bolts , particularly as the rock is not beyond suspicion . |
| 12 | Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge . |
| 13 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 14 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 15 | And not much chance of Fishy learning enough of the local lingo to set up a sting like this . |
| 16 | One of these days I shall start up a school like that . |
| 17 | The spastics society , which have their own centres in Britain , say that they want to introduce conductive Education to this country , but setting up a centre like the Peto Institute will take time and money . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry to bring up a thing like this , Stevens . |
| 19 | Uncle Basil was amused by this and rigged up a device like a stone age " Comeback tennis " only with an old composition cricket ball . |
| 20 | Whoever heard of a manufacturer signing up a has-been like Brian Harley and then advancing his caddie , who was hardly noted for his reliability , in the region of £7000 for his services ? |
| 21 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 22 | Bonanza would n't have gone to all that trouble to set up a deal like you 're imagining . ’ , |
| 23 | 2 Make up a table like the one shown . |
| 24 | 3 Make up a table like this for all the dialect words in the story : 4 Tell this story , or a story of your own , in your own dialect , or a dialect that you know well . |
| 25 | Do you think I 'd pass up an adventure like that ? ’ |
| 26 | Benny was n't going to pass up an opportunity like this . |
| 27 | I 've already had a couple of spats with them and they would n't pass up an opportunity like this to poke fun . |
| 28 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 29 | Observe now what happens when we attempt to set up an equation like 6 using a portion of a sentence which is clearly not a semantic constituent . |