Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge backlogs of work built up in the securities dealers ' back offices as deals could not be completed within the exchange 's usual accounts periods . |
| 2 | The sports were in fact more of a backcloth than the central event ; the real purpose of the day was for the parents to prowl around the school inspecting the various displays of work set up in the classrooms , and compare the achievement of their offspring with that of others . |
| 3 | The cat sat up in the branches , and it yowled plaintively . |
| 4 | We found one part of the delivery bed in the labour ward but the other part turned up in the children 's ward . |
| 5 | On March 31 a parcel bomb blew up in the hands of a retired air force colonel in Madrid , in what was believed to be an ETA retaliation for the arrests . |
| 6 | The old anthropological concept dreamed up in the universities to describe the potentialities of nature as understood by primitive people . |
| 7 | Rotting rubbish piled up in the streets . |
| 8 | Whole industries ground to a halt , rubbish piled up in the streets , transport stopped . |
| 9 | Suddenly the Yeti turned up in the men 's department where I worked . |
| 10 | One night a man stood up in the stalls , swaying slightly , and said with a slight Scandinavian accent : ‘ Hellooo . |
| 11 | This boy 's uncle 's firm ended up in the clutches of Guy Sterne 's company , and they were annihilated ! ’ |