Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 2 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 3 | A deal signed with the American biotechnology firm , Genentech , for the mass-production of the protein opened up the prospect of supplying a massive world market for haemophiliacs . |
| 4 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 5 | Alfred Hedgehog climbed up the bank of the canal and started off down the trail . |
| 6 | The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 8 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 9 | Whatever Jenny was involved in at any given moment took up the whole of her . |
| 10 | 3–11–1898 The Moderator read the following extract minute of Presbytery ; " The presbytery took up the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church as sent down by last General Assembly , and as Instructed by the Assembly , agreed to transmit the said report to the Kirk Session within their bounds for their information . " |
| 11 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |
| 12 | Rain ran up the rest of the stairs . |
| 13 | The commander , above , and his crew raced up the Rock of Gibraltar to help Janet 's Team-Up appeal . |
| 14 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 15 | The moon lit up the roof of the breaking waves . |
| 16 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 17 | Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement . |
| 18 | The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s . |
| 19 | There were several work-benches holding tools and various pieces of covered work , while shelving , tall cupboards and a low , flat sink took up the rest of the wall space . |
| 20 | Admittedly , there were regional variations in land values , and when they began to rise again , the increase was more marked in areas round London , where the demands for food from a large urban area pushed up the value of agricultural land . |
| 21 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 22 | The final straw was when the government put up the price of rice yet again . |
| 23 | Quickly Folly summed up the story of her meeting with Luke . |
| 24 | This July for example the government hiked up the price of milk by over 40 per cent . |
| 25 | On this occasion , the rescue ship steamed up the line of the convoy with a big blackboard out on deck saying : ‘ SORRY NO MORE SEATS — FULL HOUSE ’ . |
| 26 | The very efficiency of any improvement speeded up the lowering of the land as the peat dried and ‘ wasted ’ through the activities of bacteria and fungi . |
| 27 | Again the rat ran up the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 28 | One back-bench MP summed up the mood of the Scottish parliamentary party , saying : ‘ If he does n't make the grade by the end of the year then there 's no way I 'd vote for him again . |
| 29 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
| 30 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |