Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown pulled a goal back for Haverhill after 65 minutes , but –––Norwich sewed up the points when Gill scored their third . |
| 2 | Using their favoured analogy in which the complexities of a nation-state were reduced to the simplicities of a corner shop balance sheet , the newly appointed boss of the Institute took up the cudgels again in February 1990 . |
| 3 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 4 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 5 | Gen Noriega was able to broadcast to the people and organise resistance over the main national radio network , until a special US assault team blew up the transmitters late on Wednesday . |
| 6 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 7 | The head keeper scooped up the coins as deftly as any tax collector . |
| 8 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 9 | As the orchestra took up the refrain once more , she came to take her mother 's hand at centre stage , and sang as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 10 | Former Chief Justice Bhagwati summed up the situation succinctly : ’ The multinational has won and the people of India have lost . ’ |
| 11 | The Chairman summed up the changes succinctly : |
| 12 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 13 | The couple took up the hobby almost five years ago and since then have completed around 50 tapestries of various sizes , some of which decorate their home . |