Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story . |
| 2 | By 1668 the Company had collapsed ; when its successor , the Royal Africa Company , was launched in 1672 it had to tidy up the debts outstanding as well as restore the trade in gold and slaves from West Africa . |
| 3 | With a feeling of being ill-used she started to clear up the remains of last night 's dinner , while drinking a freshly squeezed orange juice , then eating a bowl of cereal . |
| 4 | Already in January 1948 they had yielded up the clause in the wartime Quebec Agreement which stated that neither Britain nor the United States would use nuclear weapons without the consent of the other . |
| 5 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 6 | Certain they had bottled up the Australian patrol , the Japanese searched the town house by house next day , but Laidlaw and his men were long gone . |
| 7 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 8 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |