Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 2 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
| 3 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |
| 4 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 5 | One of them Derek Clark is the man who dreamt up the new idea … took the plunge into the sailing revolution |
| 6 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 7 | His father was a French army officer who set up the Moroccan secret service for the king . |