Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the general public , understandably , it was not always clear whether the creation of a Commonwealth involved a grand gesture of renunciation on Britain 's part , or a grand gesture of affirmation on the part of those who took up the option . |
| 2 | At the time of the James Committee 's deliberations two research programmes were gaining educators ' attention which confirmed the anxieties of those who set up the Committee . |
| 3 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 4 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 5 | When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets . |
| 6 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 7 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 8 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 9 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
| 10 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |