Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 2 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 3 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 4 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 5 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 7 | One of the most important steps for the complete colonization of the land was the evolution of herbivorous ( plant-eating ) reptiles , tapping a prolific and nourishing source of food that opened up a new dimension to the ‘ food chain' . |
| 8 | The development of Amazonia began in 1960 after the completion of the Belém-Brasilia highway that opened up the eastern part , and in the mid-1960s the government adopted numerous policies that , via tax incentives , were designed to encourage private sector development ( Browder 1988 ) . |
| 9 | She had found the tennis courts and the machine that served up a constant succession of tennis balls . |
| 10 | They finally chose the agency that dreamed up a well-known series of ads that appealed to a deeply buried vein of female exhibitionism : ‘ I dreamed I stopped the traffic in my Maidenform Bra ’ ( she wore nothing else ) . |
| 11 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 12 | She made for the fires and the sudden yellow flashes that lit up the central complex of buildings . |
| 13 | The sky thundered , followed quickly by a crack of lightning that lit up the whole sky . |
| 14 | Next day we followed a faint path that continued up a steep-sided valley towards the crater . |
| 15 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 16 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 17 | It was a stupid thing , he thought , three gold baubles on springs that set up a continual motion , banging one against the other , and he kept it on his desk only to please her . |
| 18 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 19 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 20 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 21 | He also introduced a bleachfield to supplement the local cloth trade , and built up a local mining and coal-selling business . |
| 22 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |
| 23 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 24 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 25 | In her room Phoebe pulled on her jeans and a shirt , and snatched up a thick pullover and the bottom half of her track suit for Maggie . |
| 26 | The Champagne houses were naturally outraged at the government 's ineptitude and drew up a vociferous protest , signed by eighty participants , condemning the publicity given to the ministerial communiqué . |
| 27 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 28 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 29 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 30 | A Shrewsbury architect , Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , had the idea and drew up the original plan , but the design was modified in the process of building the bridge . |