Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 2 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 3 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 4 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 5 | An earlier wind had whipped up the surface snow into rivulets like tiny mountain ranges , and whirled spirals like ice cream from a machine . |
| 6 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 7 | Well in in general er the original work plan had divided up the production work to share out the technology and this meant that components were being shipped around more than actually they they needed to be or that was economic and it was found that there was the potential to concentrate manufacturers sub-assemblies for each of the major components of the aircraft and subsequently assemble the major components in one country rather than several . |
| 8 | For example , children earning 7.25 per cent in TSB 's Firstsave account would get 8.5 per cent if their cash helped pushed up the family 's total savings to more than £5,000 . |
| 9 | At a Local Government conference , someone at the venue had put up the mikes but had not checked to make sure they were fixed properly , so they were slowly drooping ! |
| 10 | So the fat proprietor had whistled up the gondola . |
| 11 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 12 | The DHAC had softened up the Unionists by publicising the housing situation in Derry and causing embarrassment for the Stormont government , but it was the Nationalists , as elected representatives , who were able to press home the advantage and force the concessions . |
| 13 | In Scotland not one local authority had taken up the scheme and only twenty-five councils in England and Wales had responded . |
| 14 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 15 | Mr Morrison said the independence movement had opened up the possibility of former Eastern bloc countries becoming big players in the drug trade : ‘ Poland , for example , is now a major manufacturer of amphetamine . ’ |
| 16 | Some of Harvard 's clients reneged on their agreements to sell when the price climbed , making ridiculous claims , like that the dog had chewed up the allotment letter , or that somebody had sold as a practical joke . |
| 17 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 18 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 19 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 20 | By the beginning of the 1960s the government had given up the attempt to encourage employers to take special note of the needs of older workers . |
| 21 | Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months . |
| 22 | At once the audience had taken up the song , and drowned the dialogue . |
| 23 | The main barracks fell to the rebels on 28 February and the remainder of the buildings on 5 March , after a lucky shot had blown up the magazine . |
| 24 | The Griffiths Report had summed up the service 's capacity for inertia and resistance to change just as graphically : |
| 25 | Doctors said that while his heart was fine , his vascular system had given up the ghost . |
| 26 | The darkness had swallowed up the watcher . |
| 27 | ‘ The police called the shop 's manager Jonathan White at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning to say that the audio alarm had picked up the sound of a bomb going off . |
| 28 | Now another siren had taken up the warning . |
| 29 | The big feller had struck up the opening chords of his set , the last one of the evening . |
| 30 | The three-year-old had picked up the patter from watching his dad Keith on the airwaves . |