Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a drop of 42% from the peak reached in 1990 the German Expressionist Index has held up better than the more volatile sectors of French and American painting . |
| 2 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 3 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 4 | SHAW Branch Manager John Powell had to pay up quicker than he expected after promising his staff an expenses-paid outing if they achieved their Royal Scottish leads target . |
| 5 | I know Mr used to go up there cos he was still at school then and he used to go up there cos he was doing nothing but whether he he wants her to get a job , well he . |
| 6 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 7 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 8 | The attention-grabbing deal comes as the US market , which in the past has made up more than 40 per cent of sales of the Coventry-produced supercars , shows the first signs of upturn in three years . |
| 9 | There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable . |
| 10 | Since Carol Clark 's death , caused by a blow to the neck , police have followed up more than 3,000 lines of enquiry , some of them through Interpol . |
| 11 | But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on . |
| 12 | Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances . |
| 13 | The trio have clocked up more than 100 years of local authority service between them . |
| 14 | With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase . |
| 15 | NMP aims to sign up more than 5,000 of the 29,000-30,000-odd dairy farmers in England and Wales and is wooing potential customers with a promise to pay better prices than Milk Marque . |
| 16 | Controversy over the Fleet had flared up again when Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk 's decree transferring to Ukrainian jurisdiction all military formations in the republic , including the Fleet which would form the basis of Ukraine 's navy , had been answered by Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's decree of April 7 transferring the Black Sea Fleet to Russia . |