Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The captain has the responsibility of having the report of the shoot , the names of the people who entered , minutes of their AGM and the prizewinners written up in the records . |
| 2 | The " full recovery plan " would set aside 5.4 million acres , at a cost of 32,000 jobs in the timber industry : an alternative drawn up on the instructions of Interior Secretary Manual Lujan would protect 2.8 million acres but result in the loss of 15,000 logging jobs . |
| 3 | Ruth got into bed and sat there , knees drawn up under the covers . |
| 4 | Some kindly English Burma police were with us and whenever the boat tied up to the banks would slip ashore and bring back fruit for us . |
| 5 | A typical short cut was the successful assumption that some indicators set up by the operators in the four machine windows were not random but girls ' names or four-letter dirty German words . |
| 6 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 7 | I remember the scandal surrounding her in the Seventies , when she appeared to be just a naive young girl caught up in the trappings of fame . |
| 8 | The corollary is obvious : a printing office employing women at low wages to do straight setting could dispense with a number of ordinary linesmen , keeping on only a highly skilled minority of men at rather above normal wages to " service " the type set up by the women . |
| 9 | The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before . |
| 10 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 11 | Again from Criminal Statistics ( 1988 ) we see that there has been an increase in the number of offences cleared up by the police , between 1979 and 1988 of 27.3 per cent ( from 980,700 to 1,248,900 ) . |
| 12 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 13 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 14 | The radical programmes drawn up by the experts were severely qualified . |
| 15 | The traditional lobola payments were rarely made and no contract drawn up between the families . |
| 16 | The row has brought many French roads to a standstill — and hit the pockets of British Hauliers caught up in the jams . |
| 17 | A major new training initiative set up by the Women 's Unit and the Personnel Services Division could have a profound effect on women 's employment across Europe . |
| 18 | Looking at the account books — the real ones , not the fabrications served up to the Poles and the League of Nations — it was clear that Danzig 's projected budget for 1934–5 would run at a deficit of over 44 million gulden , which , when added to the employment projects the Nazis needed to keep their supporters in Danzig happy and faithful , would leave the Reichsbank to pick up a bill of over 110 million marks . |
| 19 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 20 | For its part , West Germany was unhappy about the restrictions that had been placed upon the economic development of much of its heavy industry by the International Ruhr Authority , an organisation set up by the Allies during their military occupation of Germany : the Schuman Plan offered a way to eliminate the Authority while still satisfying West Germany 's neighbours about its intentions . |
| 21 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 22 | The first members of the teams run up to the suitcases and put everything on , run round the back of the rest of the team and then take everything off and put it back in the suitcase before running back and touching the next member of the team who repeats the process . |
| 23 | LEEDS UNITED 'S Steve Hodge was last night lined up for a Pounds 700,000 move to Everton . |
| 24 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
| 25 | Leaving Christian pulling on his boots with the intention of going to assist the gipsies , Seb made his way to the camp set up by the road-makers . |
| 26 | Best of all , he tells of the people caught up on the fringes of small wars , and finds in their resilience the small mercies of his title . |
| 27 | Thai campaigners have also criticized poor standards in the centres set up by the police to hold animals seized during raids . |
| 28 | At the edge of the marshes four tall trees stretched up to the heavens . |
| 29 | Even so , The Survivors is less convincing as a portrayal of a dire predicament than as a formal arrangement set up by the figures as they stretch and strain over the raft . |
| 30 | Deep carpet covered the floors and the stairs swept up to the showrooms and the warren of workrooms beyond , and though the window drapes and furnishings were ever-so-slightly faded , as if they had seen better days , they were of the finest silks and velvets and every corner was swept , polished and cleaned daily so that no single speck of dust , let alone a cobweb , dared show itself . |