Sentence examples for fixing up on from inspiring English sources

His parents came often to visit so he could show them the apartment he was fixing up on Lexington Avenue and 26th Street, the bicycle he liked to ride over to Central Park, the woman from Staten Island he had met at work, the many museums and monuments he prided himself on knowing, as well as the best tour guides.

It's not just the blood of beautiful young men that sad old geezers fix up on, it's the blood of beautiful animals too.

Though Dr. Newmann and Mr. Sovern grew up on the Upper West Side, attended Brown, and have a longtime mutual friend, they did not meet until May 2007 when they were fixed up on a blind date in San Francisco.

His first two years in New York followed the usual lines: He was feted and petted, and continually fixed up on blind dates, because there is nothing more exciting to society than a newly single man flush with a fortune he isn't exactly sure how to spend.

"We know there's a few things for us to fix up on, in terms of making sure we're a little bit more accurate and clinical in time for next week.

"I see so much fixing up going on around me," Passon says of her own life.

The Community Redevelopment Agency, a city-sponsored revitalization effort, had begun to pay for street improvements, fixing up facades on buildings.

She complained that her husband has no land to call his own and spends his time fixing up houses on the island for cash.

Rebecca Lewis, church secretary at Jackson Avenue Evangelical Congregational Church, built in 1845 in the 700 block, said "young people with lots of energy are buying and fixing up houses on this street and Philip St. behind us".

A few expedition firms organise trips, but if you're not up to a multi-day desert traverse, talk to specialists Al-Fawaz Tours (00 968 2329 4324; alfawaztours.com): it has links with local Dhofari desert guides and can fix up wilderness camping on the fly.

Don't tell me there's no other way, because there are lots of other ways to test cosmetics, floor cleaner and new drugs, to develop medicines and to show our military medics how to fix up injured soldiers on the battlefield.