Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is far from obvious in snowy conditions , and attempts to go up form the stance are forced off left .
2 At an officers council two of the lads got up to sing a duet at a free and easy sing-song after the intensity of the day .
3 Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk .
4 Former test pilots , engineers and craftsmen turned up to watch a fly past by two of the jets .
5 In addition to compensation received under an out of court settlement , as a result of litigation or from insurers , in the case of such terrible incidents as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , there will usually be special funds set up to assist the suffering .
6 Ellwood saw her eyes roll up to show the whites .
7 The big cities , New York , London , and Liverpool even , can afford to have units set up to encourage the production of films and videos and so on in their areas , in fact there was a report in last Thurs thirtieth of December 's Shropshire Star about Liverpool 's office .
8 The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk .
9 And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other .
10 The tiny village of East Prawle has enjoyed a tourist boom as visitors turned up to view the wreck — and take home a memento .
11 In conventional trials set up to assess the efficacy of a new drug , the drug is given to a group of patients suffering from a particular illness , and the effects are compared with those obtained in a matched group of patients given a dummy ( or placebo ) drug .
12 It 's important to get the appropriate medical advice to rule out any underlying disorder , of course , but thereafter , most parents end up drawing a blank .
13 The Chesterfield heirs never lived here ; they spurned Brizlincote , and its radial oak avenues and the formal gardens grew up to see no Stanhope carriages bowling down the drive .
14 The undersides link up to form an arch while the uppersides are cut to appear as pierced circles .
15 Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands .
16 Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said .
17 But almost every year one or more of these Siberian thrushes or warblers turn up to add a bit of icing to the bird-watching cake !
18 These are marketing institutions set up to facilitate the movement of goods and services from their point of production to their point of consumption .
19 If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so .
20 A further fifty cases followed up showed a bereavement or separation in forty-six cases and thirty-nine of the forty-six had associated guilt , anger or resentment .
21 They came : a tight little group , guns in the crooks of their arms , chatting and laughing amongst themselves , like hunters strolling up to view the bag after a fine day in the field .
22 All " treaties and agreements " entered into during the Vietnamese occupation must be cancelled , he said , new borders delineated between Cambodia and Vietnam , and special SNC committees set up to control the Phnom Penh adminstration and the police .
23 The latter are legislative committees set up to take the committee stage of a bill and they have to reflect the division of party strength that exists on the floor of the House .
24 Last week , six pre-press software and systems vendors lined up to endorse the Sparc/Solaris platform : they include Crosfield Electronics Ltd , Digital Technology International , DuPont/Camex , ECRM , Linotype-Hell and System Integrators Inc .
25 The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable .
26 Out of the darkness beyond the white wall , streaks of fireflies : sudden lines of light matching the projected gashes on the film , which would suddenly stop and the lights come up to make an interval .
27 With two rooms used up holding the heavies , the bedroom 's all that is left .
28 The trust for sale terms drawn up gave the trustees the right to manage the land and an obligation to sell it if it no longer produced a satisfactory income , with the proceeds of the sale going to the beneficiary , the consent of the beneficiary being necessary before the sale could take place .
29 The accreditation reflects C&P 's commitment to environmental objectives set up to make the company 's environmental performance ‘ measurably better ’ .
30 Crooks signed up to enjoy the benefits of corruption and to lend their power .
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