Example sentences of "up a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , his team-mates — all £14m worth of them — reckon the kid who was brought up a stone 's throw from Ibrox is even better . |
| 2 | Of course , if it should offer compensation in this case , the Government would open up a Pandora 's box of claims from other similar cases . |
| 3 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 4 | Louis 's prompt remarriage , in 819 , to Judith , daughter of Count Welf , opened up a Pandora 's box of possibilities . |
| 5 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 6 | Since the plant manager was never able to make up a day 's loss of output which pulled down his monthly overall efficiency figures on which he was judged , it was never difficult for Clasper to prove his point . |
| 7 | And anyway , Jersey 's barely overseas and I 'm giving up a day 's holiday here . ’ |
| 8 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 9 | ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . ) |
| 10 | Brighten up a child 's room with one of these near-fluorescent carpet designs from the Prime Movers collection by Tomkinson Carpets . |
| 11 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 12 | I 'm sure you do n't want to hear about Mark 's cousin getting done for selling crack mixed with concrete , or the Forest Of Dean whizzkid who tried to get the band 's mate to give them heroin so they 'd all become addicted so he could make a profit out of them , or Zac sticking his finger up a chicken 's arse , do you ? |
| 13 | As might be expected , the move has stirred up a hornet 's nest of academic fear and loathing against USL and has created a cadre of naive tech weenies ready to form a lynch mob . |
| 14 | ‘ Forbes has stirred up a hornet 's nest . |
| 15 | But why stir up a hornet 's nest by accusing Erdle when murder has n't been mentioned ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The new production quotas have stirred up a hornet 's nest — and that 's without the added difficulty of a flu epidemic . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 're not trying to stir up a hornet 's nest but we do want to let everyone know what we 're trying to achieve , ’ campaign spokesman Steve Melia said . |
| 18 | Here are a few more ideas : to jolly up a winter 's party , try a mixture of cinnamon bark , cloves and orange . |
| 19 | They are defined as firms or enterprises whose final output is in some sense non-material , irrespective of the types of occupation that make up a firm 's labour force . |
| 20 | Your Committee are actively pursuing the proposal to set up a Bishop 's Castle Railway Museum in Bishop 's Castle and have the offer of a suitable building . |
| 21 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 22 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 23 | A medical orderly and a nurse patch up a competitor 's foot during a break in the Nijmegen Marches |
| 24 | The likeliest explanation seemed to be that , in the autumn of 1986 , Control had indicated to the DEA that Coleman had worked for the DIA in the past but , as he was no longer active , the agency had no objection to his taking up a consultant 's job with Hurley on Cyprus . |
| 25 | Scattered through the policy review are proposals to : Drastically alter the status and organisation of the Department of Trade and Industry ; Create two departments — a Department of Consumer Affairs , and a Department for Legal Administration ; Create a Department of Environmental Protection within the existing Department of the Environment ; Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies ; Set up a Women 's Ministry . |
| 26 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 27 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 28 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 29 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 30 | Brought up a gardener 's son in Surrey , a country cottage had been his dream . |