Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] up [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 2 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 3 | Forty-three members of the old party set up an HSWP cell , and urged their comrades all over the country to do the same . |
| 4 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 5 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 6 | Vibrant atom-age timekeepers clock up a Nobel Prize |
| 7 | There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said . |
| 8 | The Caribbean islands present a slight complication to this simple picture of a single volcanic chain running up the Americas . |
| 9 | The dying ripples of its massive tidal wave lapped up the English Channel , and the volcanic debris , wreathing the planet , altered weather and harvest patterns around the world for years afterwards . |
| 10 | Thus re-established Gehlen returned to Germany on the winning side to head up the CIA 's new Cold War against Russia . |
| 11 | Town and canton rose in importance after the early thirteenth century when the bridging of the Schollenen gorge opened up the Cotthard . |
| 12 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | The white car with its half glimpsed driver 's familiar face accelerating up the Julians ’ drive haunted her . |
| 14 | The city streets were so congested with vehicles it was a slow process getting up the Strand , and in winter horse manure was apt to splash up unpleasantly . |
| 15 | Material sufficient for three divisions was despatched to the nationalist regime of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in aid of his war against Greece , and the honeymoon period with Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1922–27 ) saw the granting of more than $2 million in military aid to the Kuomintang : whilst Soviet advisers set up the Whampoa military academy and trained soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army in the field , Soviet troops performed limited combat missions , including aerial bombardment and reconnaissance . |
| 16 | Opening titles , which once featured an animated zoom shot up the Thames ending in a close-up of the clockface on Big Ben , now consist of a camera making a spectacular swoop into the newsroom . |
| 17 | The huge yacht sailed up the Derwent accompanied by hundreds of spectator craft to take the winner 's gun early yesterday evening . |
| 18 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |
| 19 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |