Example sentences of "up [det] kind of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 2 | I shall name just the latest , launched yesterday evening — the British Emergency Action for Russia and the Republics Trust , founded by Lady Braithwaite , the wife of the ambassador — which is trying to bring together in an imaginative way charities and non-governmentalorganisations in this country to make contacts and help to build up that kind of self-help in Russia . |
| 3 | But even he would n't have dared to dream up this kind of swansong to his long football life . |
| 4 | He asked me if I was sure I was n't working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious . |
| 5 | Q. Can you give me any information on Britain 's common toad as I am interested in raising some tadpoles — presently spawn — from a friend 's pond with a view to setting up some kind of vivarium for housing a mature toad . |
| 6 | I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that . |
| 7 | ‘ You assume it slams up some kind of barrier around you . |
| 8 | His strenuous efforts to drum up any kind of interest in this product , already nicknamed the Foldie , has increasingly resembled a man trying to hammer-throw in a wardrobe . |