Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to do this he followed up the material throughout its various processes , and plotted its progress on a chart or series of charts . |
| 2 | It was the Scottish King Ewen III who dreamt up the idea of the right of the first night , around the year 875 . |
| 3 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'd like to , I 'm glad you picked up the children looked after by the local authority , but what bothers me is the children in families that are causing concern rather than for those that are actually erm , in care . |
| 5 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 6 | One of the letters , to Val Hulme of ABC , said : ‘ I have met many innocent men inside this building of darkness , many who gave up the fight a long time ago . |
| 7 | When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets . |
| 8 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
| 9 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 10 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 11 | To the general public , understandably , it was not always clear whether the creation of a Commonwealth involved a grand gesture of renunciation on Britain 's part , or a grand gesture of affirmation on the part of those who took up the option . |
| 12 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 13 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 14 | Had they failed , Martin and his men — i.e. those who dreamt up the match schedules — would have had enough egg on their faces for a thousand omelettes . |
| 15 | At the time of the James Committee 's deliberations two research programmes were gaining educators ' attention which confirmed the anxieties of those who set up the Committee . |
| 16 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 17 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 18 | On 2 April 1746 he gave up the attempt and headed hastily north ‘ in a great hurry and confusion ’ . |
| 19 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 20 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 21 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
| 22 | At about four he rang up the number given him for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , but he was answered by a not too refined woman 's voice — a voice with a touch of the treacle tart in it , and a touch of the plain tart as well . |
| 23 | Next we opened up the loading door . |