Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kay brothers took up the design , made further improvements to it , and produced their stones uniformly on Andrew 's machine . |
| 2 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 3 | ALEXANDRE NADOBENKO of the Kazakhstan team powered up the cobbled William Brown Street for victory at the end of the 116-miles 10th stage of the 1,150-mile Milk Race from Sheffield to Liverpool yesterday . |
| 4 | One respondent in the Yorkshire survey summed up the difficulties : ‘ One has to recognise that the pressures on consultants are increasing steadily — workload , management , teaching , financial control , reduction of juniors ’ hours … |
| 5 | About 24 teams from local businesses in the Cambridge area took up the Cambridge Regional College initiative , to complete a number of different challenges in support of the local community . |
| 6 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 7 | For the Mau Maus to take up the offering was like asking Jack the Ripper to baby sit . |
| 8 | TROY AIKMAN threw for three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title with a 41-17 NFL rout of the Atlanta Falcons . |
| 9 | Its internal priorities reshuffled , the Princetown Input crept up the list . |
| 10 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 11 | Fearing that Germany might win the race to develop this weapon , the US government set up the Manhattan Project , costing $2 billion and involving some 150 000 people , including most of the world 's most outstanding physicists . |
| 12 | However , the US administration stepped up the food aid programme in spite of the Lavoro scandal and the suspicions of the Department of Agriculture . |
| 13 | Again , according to Escoffier himself a Paris factory , the Maison Fontaine took up the canned tomato industry , the whole department of the Vaucluse started to specialise in the same business , and it was only after the events recorded by him that Italy and America introduced their own versions of canned tomatoes . |
| 14 | Sensational wins over world No 2 Chris Dittmar and No 3 Rodney Martin in the past three weeks , plus victory over six-times world champion Jahangir Khan in the World Championships , have propelled the Nottingham 21-year-old soaring up the world rankings to No 7 . |
| 15 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 16 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 17 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 18 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |