Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 2 | Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed . |
| 3 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 4 | A faint smell of frying bacon drifted up from the kitchen . |
| 5 | The Rifleman stared at his enemy just as many of the crowd in the entrance hall stared up at the blood-soaked Rifleman . |
| 6 | A piece of silver wrapping-paper rolled up into a tight ball , or the traditional ball of wool , provides the greatest reward . |
| 7 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 8 | The election for the governorship of the north western province of Catamarca , held on Dec. 1 , was won by Arnoldo Castillo , the candidate of the Civic and Social Front ( FCS ) , an opposition alliance made up of the Radical Party ( UCR ) , dissidents of the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ-the Peronists ) and other minority parties . |
| 9 | The snow buggy pulled up alongside a closed elevator door . |
| 10 | The small village was completely silent as the Marines who had landed at the small fishing jetty moved up into the plateau where the houses were built . |
| 11 | MORE than 50 children were swimming in a pool when deadly clouds of chlorine gas bubbled up through the water . |
| 12 | Rock music started up on every side — |
| 13 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 14 | Of course , this particular instance was treated as a Venetian holiday by the press , and no reader of the reports would probably have cared had the whole wedding party ended up in the canal . |
| 15 | The fire brigade van pulled up in a flurry of flashing lights and the crew were there immediately assessing the job . |
| 16 | This profitability is maintained by a balancing act ; the fundamental chemical industry balance summed up in the fact that if you want to get the utmost out of sodium chloride , you should n't have either sodium or chlorine left over unsold at the end of the day ; not much use increasing the use of one if you ca n't increase use of the other in proportion . |
| 17 | In April it called for a three-tier market , including an international equity market made up of the top 350 companies , a national market for most of the remaining companies listed on the Official List and the USM , and an enterprise market with minimum requirements for those companies not on the Official List , the intention being that those companies in the enterprise market should comprise higher risk operations . |
| 18 | The child Nizan grew up in the shadow of death . |
| 19 | Over lunch in a Chinese restaurant in the Renaissance Centre — a huge tubular steel and glass shopping mall put up in an attempt to disguise Detroit 's decaying heart — Paris Gray is recounting the countries she 's visited in the past couple of months . |
| 20 | Riddick Bowe 's World Boxing Council belt ended up in the trash can , Mike Tyson ended up in the can , and Lennox Lewis became Britain 's first world heavyweight champion without even hitting anyone . |
| 21 | It is no wonder the Home Secretary came up with a derisory response to the heartfelt plea for more police to restore a sense of security to our communities . |
| 22 | In the mêlée Eastwood/Thorogood rode up over the veneer K2 of Ning/Xu and sunk it , the Chinese holding onto the British boat for about half a minute despite some unapproved use of a British paddle . |
| 23 | The Stock Exchange is party to the central compensation fund set up under the Financial Services Act , in which losses due to fraud or the collapse of an institution of 100 per cent up to £30 000 and 90 per cent of losses up to £20 000 are recompensed , and then nothing after that . |
| 24 | Whittingham says : ‘ I got a real stamina bank built up during the summer and , once I started scoring goals , my self-confidence was sky-high . |
| 25 | This included a scheme for a new 150,000-mile National Highway System made up from the existing inter-state system and other major roads . |
| 26 | Rex Mundi , Lazlo Woodbine and the two-headed offspring of a popular show-biz couple put up for the night in a room above the Tomorrowman Tavern . |
| 27 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 28 | They are as follows : the Cabinet Committee system grew up as the load on the Cabinet itself became too great . |
| 29 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 30 | Sheffield Wednesday midfielder John Sheridan has had to withdraw from the Republic squad , following the thigh injury picked up in the FA Cup final replay defeat against Arsenal on Thursday at Wembley . |