Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six Senior Clerks were each in charge of the Consular , the Slave Trade and four political departments , which divided up the world between them into convenient geographical areas . |
| 2 | The Herald of Free Enterprise , which lived up to its name and capsized ; 190 people were killed , thanks to sloppiness in P & O ‘ from top to bottom ’ ; at the top , Jeffrey Stirling , chairman of P & O , was given a peerage . |
| 3 | Thick , black pools around the spikes showed some of the heads were fresh , though all were rotting , crumbling under the rain and wind which whipped up their oddly silken hair . |
| 4 | The decision expressed , Ybreska could no longer restrain the happiness and excitement which welled up inside him . |
| 5 | He was right of course , Carrie thought , and as she nestled the child to her and placed the teat of the bottle against the child 's searching mouth she bit on her lip and tried to suppress the anger which welled up inside her . |
| 6 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 7 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |
| 8 | Shakespeare and Racine — or rather the developments which led up to them — each found his own reason . |
| 9 | Again , there was no direct reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ about the destruction of European Jewry , though the whole section of the report was placed under a quotation from the speech which led up to the passage on the Jews : that in the light of the suffering of the Germans at the hands of others , people should ‘ keep well away from us with their humanitarianism ’ . |
| 10 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 11 | This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution . |
| 12 | Kelly walked up the steps into the hall of the Garrick towards the wide staircase which led up to the bar , then hesitated . |
| 13 | Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included . |
| 14 | These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out . |
| 15 | There was nothing democratic about either the way in which the decision was taken or the process which led up to It . |
| 16 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 17 | This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation . |
| 18 | But there are other even more fundamental reasons for allowing this appeal , and they are concerned with the judge 's actions and decisions which led up to his discharge of the jury . |
| 19 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 20 | The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park . |
| 21 | He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him . |
| 22 | They cite the provisions under which the measure concerned has been adopted , as well as any proposals , opinions , or consultations which led up to their adoption . |
| 23 | On 19 March the Assembly started a series of debates on a motion to reject Sunningdale and the constitutional arrangements which led up to the conference , and there built up a demand from Loyalists that new elections should be held for the Assembly . |
| 24 | He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate . |
| 25 | There was a small garden in front of the house , and she hurried along the crazy-paving path which led up to the gabled front porch . |
| 26 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |
| 28 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 29 | The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 . |
| 30 | He drove along the road for two or three miles , then turned off on to a stone-walled lane which led up a forested hillside . |