Example sentences of "up a [noun] [prep] " 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 | Her family attempted to fix up a marriage with the US-settled tennis star from India , Ashok Amritraj . |
| 3 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 4 | She then picks up a stone in her jaws and , vibrating her head at high speed , bangs down the soil . |
| 5 | He fixed up a holiday for himself and Fergie in St Tropez . |
| 6 | One young person gave up a holiday to America just to help us . |
| 7 | Well , the market will probably be up a year from now , and if he holds shares in all the ex-state companies ( 36 , less two taken over ) his risks are tolerably spread , with worthy water companies balancing clouded bits of aerospace . |
| 8 | ‘ This is a very painful move for us , but we do n't want to wake up a year from now and wish we had n't done it , ’ Next founder Steve Jobs told United Press International . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many girls do manage to survive and come out able to build up a life for themselves , but the odds are stacked against them . |
| 12 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 13 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 14 | So Barry greased a few palms and set up a day at the Foss Island Waterpark in Brandsburton , North Yorkshire . |
| 15 | Then they beat up a man of 76 in a failed robbery , Leeds Crown Court heard . |
| 16 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 17 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 18 | He was shaking in his shoes , but said as calmly as he could , ‘ You roughed up a man from Belfast a few nights ago . ’ |
| 19 | Events are falling into place for setting up a work in Glasgow based within my home church , Queen 's Park Baptist . |
| 20 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 21 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 22 | Most of that is presently with your offices and draw up a reports in a moment , it was on special education needs , and so on . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on . |
| 25 | She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same . |
| 26 | Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent . |
| 27 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 28 | Five minutes later a passenger aircraft appeared overhead and took up a hold at 7,000 feet . |
| 29 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 30 | During April 1988 , Suchard , the Swiss-based chocolate manufacturer , launched a dawn raid on Rowntree , the York-based company , quickly scooping up a stake of 14.9 per cent as a ‘ strategic investment ’ , but claiming that it had no intention of launching a full-scale takeover bid . |