Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 2 | Hipper , steaming northward parallel to Beatty , again sighted his enemy to the west at about 17.40 ; he immediately turned east but was then bombarded by Hood , who had inadvertently taken up a wrong station . |
| 3 | We bade farewell to the wild deer and , with the wind behind us , crossed Taransay Sound and gently cruised up the fjord-like approach towards civilization . |
| 4 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 5 | They had consolidated their position since the fifteenth century and had latterly built up an impregnable position in the social infrastructure of the region . |
| 6 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 7 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 8 | ‘ Just picked up an odd-looking customer . |
| 9 | Muddiman , however , had meanwhile built up a lucrative sideline by sending handwritten news reports to private correspondents , which could include items on parliamentary proceedings which were forbidden in print . |
| 10 | ‘ The wife has already made up a spare bed in Susan 's room . |
| 11 | It was nip and tuck up to 7-7 before Best opened up a 12-9 lead . |
| 12 | Officers have already drawn up a new code of standards for landlords . |
| 13 | If you have already thought up a sensible solution to my problems , that puts you one up on me as I was then , because I was completely flummoxed by the whole thing . |
| 14 | Fairbairn ) aptly summed up the Labour party 's position . |
| 15 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 16 | And Kode has just set up a new marketing company , Kamtronics , to sell all high-volume printed circuit boards made in the Far East to the UK and Europe . |
| 17 | The Periodical Publishers Association and Newspaper Society have already set up a working committee to campaign against the imposition of VAT on magazines and newspapers . |
| 18 | The council has already set up a working party on resists , chaired by Ron Lawes . |
| 19 | Now , I do understand that the C E C has already set up a working party to look into this whole issue of elections to the C E C , and no doubt , that will also include a review of the byelaws . |
| 20 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 21 | It is lamentable that the Government have not set up a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , which could help us to deal with Scottish matters . |
| 22 | And I 've already fixed up a local lass to come and clean up for you every day . ’ |
| 23 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 24 | But , her husband 's just sta , or the boyfriend , the boyfriend 's just started up a new company |
| 25 | He has already put up the four corner posts . |
| 26 | A written request for a brief photocall from the media , who were not allowed up the 100-yard driveway to the hotel , was conveyed by a garda to Mr Keenan . |
| 27 | In the Italian league , full of good teams , it has lately notched up an all-time record — no defeats in 58 successive games — and is close to winning its 13th title . |
| 28 | However , on Saturday he had one of those games when little went right for him and as a result the pack rarely got up a good head of steam . |
| 29 | Most of this has to do with Veronica Lake 's deep , husky voice : a smoky spirit whose name and form collectively conjured up a feminine aura of water , vapour , air , smoke and flesh at the same time ; a floating dreamboat that any boy of six would be proud to be married to . |
| 30 | The police had been excluded from prior knowledge of the arrests , but quickly built up an accurate picture . |