Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |