Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 2 | At this staging camp I picked up some mail . |
| 3 | It seems from folklore that these involved dancing with music through the night , often on the Sabbath , and the legends about being turned to stone imply disapproval of the old pagan religion which kept up these practices . |
| 4 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 5 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 6 | The women 's days are beginning to include the mix of activities , experiences and relationships which make up ordinary life for most people . |
| 7 | This is the economic force which pushes up national income . |
| 8 | It was here that the Princess was presented with a bonnet of straw-plait made by the ladies of Swanage who stayed up all night to finish it before the royal party left next day from the Quay to join the Royal Yacht in the Bay . |
| 9 | After tea she wrapped up some fruit cake for me to take back home . |
| 10 | When added to the usual treatments for this condition it cleared up persistent ulcers in 40 out of 60 cases . |
| 11 | There are many excellent , authoritative text books covering the differing disciplines which make up Cosmetic Science . |
| 12 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 13 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 14 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 15 | Thus in feudal society they include the relationship between the lord and vassal and the set of rights , duties and obligations which make up that relationship . |
| 16 | The bloke who made up those tests was the real loony if you ask me . |
| 17 | However , the index itself takes up less space . |
| 18 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 19 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 20 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 21 | After so many years I kept up this contact , especially with one or two who were real friends . |
| 22 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 23 | Claiming that bureaucratic costs are much lower in the regions than the smaller districts while areas of duplication or overlap are ‘ marginal , ’ they state : ‘ The notion that financial savings will accrue from structural reform which break up large regions such as Lothian and Strathclyde does not merit serious consideration . ’ |
| 24 | The great companies and other organisations which make up modern economies have considerable discretion in choosing the goals they will seek to fulfil , and even more discretion in deciding how they will fulfil them . |
| 25 | It was the sound of mud and moisture , the kind of sound which conjures up bare seashores with the tide far out and clear skies overhead . |
| 26 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 27 | He was a cavalcade of theatrical camp , a marionette who dressed up gay attitudes in new frocks , and sold it to grannies from Neasden . |
| 28 | A surprise luxury weekend at one of London 's top hotels was the reward for five regional retailers who notched up major sales increases . |
| 29 | Y CYRFF : ‘ Mae Ddoe Yn Ddoe ’ Welsh language guitar group who split up last year issue 22-track compilation spanning their eight-year career — out now |
| 30 | In fact , more often than not the fieldworker took the initiative in this matter ; investigators who build up long-term relationships with communities frequently hear and record material which they would prefer to remain ignorant about . |