Example sentences of "up [det] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 2 | Vultures may rise up each morning on columns of air called thermals , reaching heights of 2000 metres or more . |
| 3 | Why should a future leader of the Liberal Party throw up that possibility in order to be a curate , whose work in popular mythology ( and sometimes in reality ) consists in having cups of tea with elderly women ? |
| 4 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even so , I they can go and look up that lot of words in Shakespeare . |
| 7 | You ca n't take up that sort of attitude in a small place like this . |
| 8 | The developments in techniques for both sound and video recording have opened up another world of data to ethnomethodologists ( and , for that matter , to all sociologists ) . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , hostility to socialist realism runs deep and it would seem appropriate and productive at this stage to examine briefly the more critical views of the practice of Stalinist socialist realism articulated quite dramatically by Georg Lukacs himself , in order to draw up another set of criteria by which to assess Nizan 's communist novels . |
| 10 | Er go up another flight of stairs to another room . |
| 11 | We shall take up this issue in detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 12 | Bailey sums up this pair of purposes under the head of ‘ instrumentalism ’ . |
| 13 | Coming up this weekend at Moreton in Marsh . |
| 14 | But even he would n't have dared to dream up this kind of swansong to his long football life . |
| 15 | Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ You assume it slams up some kind of barrier around you . |
| 20 | He 's rigged up some sort of snowplough behind a horse . ’ |
| 21 | We 've set up some walk in sessions on Saturday between 9 and 1 and during the week , so you can talk to someone then . |
| 22 | What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | The problem , however , was that although efficiency demanded that an inspector be experienced and the commissioners , Fullerton believed , would appoint his son if they were permitted , ‘ they are actuated in all these matters by the influence of the Earle of Isla , who often fills up these employments at London without any presentments ’ . |
| 24 | After retirement she took up many interests including cookery to a very high standard . |
| 25 | The enormities of the Hitler regime and the Holocaust opened up many fields of research into the workings of minds not only of fanatics but also of the mentally disoriented or diseased . |
| 26 | Melanie gave up all rights in Victoria on the spot and felt a lessening of tension . |
| 27 | As well as those who have deliberately given up all idea of marriage for the sake of their Christian calling , there are others who fail to find a marriage partner and accept that situation as part of God 's plan for their life . |
| 28 | But you have to admit , it 's for the dog 's own protection to wear muzzle , as they can pick up all sorts of things in the street which can poison them . |
| 29 | Even more usefully , from a film-maker 's point of view , untimely celebrity death precludes the risk of libel , thus opening up all sorts of opportunities for dramatic license . |
| 30 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |