Sentence examples for for fixing up from inspiring English sources

And that's just for "fixing up" the sites.

Civic leaders cheered him, at first, for fixing up parks and attending the needs of the poorer villages.

In many ways, the ranch plan sounds like a knockoff of his strategy for fixing up lumbering corporations in the 80's.

But Mr. Stephens says that moving even a game a year dashes his own plans for fixing up the Little Rock stadium.

The Times story, by Leslie Wayne, notes that Huckabee's tax hikes paid for fixing up Arkansas's dilapidated roads, obtaining Medicaid matching funds for nursing homes, improving state parks, and obeying a court order to make school financing more equitable.

"N.J. Transit had no plans for fixing up that building because they were focused on the station," said Mayor Dunne, who was an originator of the police museum idea.

But the cost was difficult to calculate and did not capture all the hours spent preparing for and fixing up after the shutdowns, analysts argued.

For a little more than a year, Ms. Key, a 34-year-old New York artist and M.F.A. student at Hunter College, has been bartering stays in the outbuilding behind her 1899 brick row house in Brooklyn in exchange for help fixing up the main residence.

I wish we were mature enough to save for, say, fixing up our apartment or traveling to nice places".

Brown took a bus to New York in 1969 and led hootenannies at Gerde's Folk City, which gave him a place to sleep in return for cleaning and fixing up a new venue for the club.

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