Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bones and Whizzo stayed where they were , too tired to move , but the spotty mare got up . |
| 2 | The hare was running and the Atom lived up to her name and blasted clear . |
| 3 | Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides . |
| 4 | The back tyre mimed a shallow S , then the bike straightened up , began to shrink . |
| 5 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 6 | The Robe of human Hands was probably somewhere here , by the Eyes and the Skins and by the cloak made up of what looked like nail and hair … |
| 7 | A highly complex drug made up of a whole series of chemicals with different reaction times , designed to fire particular synapses in the brain itself — to create , if you like , a false landscape of experience . |
| 8 | Then cosmologists began to revise their estimates of the percentage of the Universe 's mass made up by ‘ dark matter ’ which could not be directly observed — including black holes and pulsars . |
| 9 | The Contemporary Masters Index made up of ten internationally shown and collected artists shows a drop of 44% from the peak in 1990 yet an overall rise since 1985 of 235% . |
| 10 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
| 11 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 12 | High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing . |
| 13 | But the pensioner got up and fought back , police said . |
| 14 | Although the Democrats had recaptured control of both the Senate and the House , there remained a conservative majority made up of southern Democrats and Republicans . |
| 15 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 16 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month . |
| 17 | The blacksmith straightened up and looked at her . |
| 18 | The main base made up of volunteers from the local wards like nurses and well I mean nurses and auxiliaries like that . |
| 19 | Honor straightened up and mopped her eyes . |
| 20 | Vertiginous horror swirled up around her , the riptides of chaos that lay out where decisions spun . |
| 21 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 22 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 23 | His presence made up her mind for her and she turned , brushing past him and heading towards a newspaper vendor who sat shivering behind his stall at the nearby entrance to a Metro station . |
| 24 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 25 | Parental smoking was dichotomised ( regular or occasional smoker v non-smoker , former smoker or not known ) , and father 's occupation was categorised into four groups : manual , non-manual , unemployed , and not known ( this last category made up 21% ( 943 ) of the 4538 responses ) . |
| 26 | A snipe got up . |
| 27 | One night the wind turned wild and a great storm got up . |
| 28 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 29 | On the advice of City experts , a director general and a board made up of MPs , councillors and activists will run the ramshackle national organisation like a private company . |
| 30 | We have our own advisory board made up of members and officials of the council , trade unionists , industrialists and our own management . |