Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 2 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 3 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 4 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 5 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 6 | NICK FALDO picked up the Ritz Club Golfer of the Year award and the Vardon Trophy , given to the European Tour 's leading money-winner , at the Tour 's annual dinner in London last night . |
| 7 | Her family and former schoolfriends in Crosby set up the Vicki Bayliss Neuroblastoma Research Fund in her memory and tomorrow her mother , Judy , will join the 850 runners who have applied to take part in the 11th Crosby 10 . |
| 8 | The technical training department set up the NEBOSH course , which is seen as a logical progression building from the broad base of safety representatives training . |
| 9 | Sir John Rimmer digs up the Presley hoard . |
| 10 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |
| 11 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 12 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 13 | Would it be far-fetched then to see Susan , if she were at home ringing up the Gay Byrne Radio Show to tell him what she saw ? |
| 14 | TROY AIKMAN threw for three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title with a 41-17 NFL rout of the Atlanta Falcons . |
| 15 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 16 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 17 | Continue to Quebec City , an old walled city divided into two parts : the picturesque old quarter built entirely on a cliff , and the lower town spreading up the St. Charles River Valley . |
| 18 | A League title and European Cup winner with Aston Villa , Swain takes up the Springfield Park post next Monday . |
| 19 | This picture sums up the Falklands campaign . ’ |
| 20 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 21 | For more than two hours , the band who are without question the biggest rock outfit on the globe at present lit up the Dublin sky with a breathtaking assault on the senses . |
| 22 | Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 23 | In his usual cold manner , Falkenhayn summed up the March results as follows : ‘ owing to the peculiar conformation we could not use these successes to bring our artillery far enough forward , and consequently the preparatory work here had to be continued . ’ |
| 24 | But only a week ago she clashed with Mr Smith after he snubbed her request to wind up the Commons debate on the pit closures . |
| 25 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 26 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 27 | In Britain , the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority set up the Culham Laboratory in 1961 to provide a central fusion research laboratory free of classified research and the security restrictions that go with it . |
| 28 | Tarogan 's is the Swindon hope and speedmaster brings up the Lambourn lot . |
| 29 | Building on the core collection which once formed part of the outstanding collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence , Parker built up the Ashmolean prints and drawings collection into one of the world 's finest . |
| 30 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |