Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 2 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 3 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 4 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 5 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 6 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 7 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 8 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 9 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 10 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 11 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 12 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 13 | The hesitant middle-aged gentleman who was brave enough to join a keep fit class later found himself confident enough to join the neighbouring management training and business start-up class , and grew in confidence and ability to the extent that he opened up a new business . |
| 14 | The advice given is , and I quote , ‘ I would recommend to any amateur painter that he put up a large sign in his studio or room . |
| 15 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 16 | But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance , his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality " was " if not exactly intimidating , at least restraining " . |
| 17 | ‘ My lipstick fell out of my bag , you see , and he trod on it — not on the carpet , thank heaven ! — so he picked up the mangled remains and asked if he could get me another . |
| 18 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 19 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 20 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 21 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 22 | No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it . |
| 23 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 24 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 25 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 26 | And who put up the fat poster ? ’ |
| 27 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |
| 28 | Then it was Sue 's turn , and she opened up a shimmering square of silk scarf , which had been flattened to the size of an envelope and now expanded and billowed across the table like the sail of a brilliant ship . |
| 29 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 30 | It was a leisurely day and we padded up the rough , warm rock of a plinth of slabs until an awkward overlap sharpened our claws for the crux pitch above . |