Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , farmers would like to grow the larvae from eggs , and so a new industry — prawn hatcheries — has grown up to meet the demand . |
| 2 | ‘ The whole musical inferno has risen up to stop a child 's brilliance being seen ’ , he wrote . |
| 3 | is also going to help me in an approach to Michael Shea , former Palace press officer and diplomat ( see Who 's Who ) — I met Shea last night at one of the three seminars and receptions which has set up to mark the summit . |
| 4 | No one wants to end up fighting a patent battle in court because financially only the lawyers win . |
| 5 | They drink pints , work longer hours than any man on the team and practically pee standing up to convince the chaps they 're ‘ one of them ’ . |
| 6 | He signalled the waiter , who came bustling up to clear the table for the next course . |
| 7 | Whatever happens , I always seem to end up watching The South Bank Show , something I never do normally ; the changing of the clocks is forever associated with the Arts and adenoids . |
| 8 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 9 | If you mess up the hour or so afterwards , you no doubt will never want to line up to cover the distance again . |
| 10 | In England and Wales they 'll have to pay up to double the Poll Tax on any empty farm cottages they own , although farmers in Scotland are going to be exempt from this . |
| 11 | Colonel Moore , moved and perturbed , would have stood up to encounter the man squarely on but the pressure of Hope 's grip kept him down in his seat . |
| 12 | Julie Hilton from Gloucester failed to turn up to answer the charges and was found guilty in her absence . |
| 13 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 14 | He would n't want to end up sharing a cell with Mike Tyson , would he ? ’ |
| 15 | During all the years I went to school in Parma she never failed to get up to warm the kitchen and give me hot drinks , however early it had to be ; it was sometimes five o'clock , if I had to finish work from the night before . |
| 16 | If they , if they do n't become media personalities and do all the things they do on the telly and visit the hospitals , then we might very well get fed up paying the money for them when you consider the Queen is the richest person in the world is she not ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm going to have to give up standing the market , Ma , ’ she announced quietly . |
| 18 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 19 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 20 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 21 | The grey tracksuited Apostle , who had come up to make a routine check of the sleeping quarters , doubled over with a grunt of agony . |
| 22 | Some women who started work after their children had grown up felt the need to continue working in order to obtain a reasonable pension on retirement , yet they were forced to retire at 60 , because that is the age when they become entitled to a state and/or occupational pension . |
| 23 | ‘ If at least one young person decides to give up putting a foot into a stolen car ever again , then her son 's death will not have been in vain ; and another mother will not have to experience the heartbreak she is experiencing . |
| 24 | The Chilean party , in alliance with Radicals and Socialists ( who had sprung up to challenge the Communists in 1932 ) won a popular Front victory in 1938 , and in 1946 they collaborated with the Radical party to win an election ( this time without the Socialists ) and participated briefly in the government . |
| 25 | This provoked further controversy , and the pressure of letters continued to build up urging the Society to declare more fully its membership criteria . |
| 26 | Nutty had gone up to have a nose , sat behind the oil-drum stack early and seen him leave . |
| 27 | Gibbs read out the charge : there was a great deal of florid preambling , all about the defence of the realm , and the jurisdiction of the provosmarshal , and the patriotic obligations of the King 's subjects to defend the royal allies against the common enemy , most of which Gibbs and Woodruffe had cooked up to impress the French . |
| 28 | In the event Schlüter had ended up heading a minority coalition with the Liberals ( Venstre ) . |
| 29 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 30 | At the end of some noisy haggling he had ended up paying the driver way over the odds . |