Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 2 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 3 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 4 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 5 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 6 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 7 | Kafy 's eyes lit up for a moment , and then shut him out . |
| 8 | His eyes lit up for a moment at that . |
| 9 | He recalls that US researchers came up with a list of programmes of which they approved , including The Waltons , and those of which they disapproved , including the old Batman series , with its camp humour and captions saying ‘ Pow ’ when he punched the baddie . |
| 10 | Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending . |
| 11 | And to her amazement Nails got up without a word , dived into the pool , came up alongside Hoomey and started correcting his stroke , bawling into his ear and galvanizing him into twice the effort . |
| 12 | Rats looked up from a saucer of milk as the monklike figure entered the room . |
| 13 | Eager Owls fired up for a fightback |
| 14 | The two women in the sombre , fusty dignity of the drawing-room at Buller 's Hill House ; Matthew Choak , trying his uncle 's chair for size ; the little room overlooking the bay where the undertaker kept his secret troubles locked up in a drawer like Pandora 's box ; the Scapegoat turning over and over in its garland of flame ; the clothing , some of it blood-stained , spread out on tables in the police station . |
| 15 | Then , she would trot out an array of fresh , original ideas backed up by a parade of articulate , intelligent and experienced public relations women . |
| 16 | John 's mother , Maria , who had often earned her living as a seamstress , made the lavish costumes ; the cream-coloured dresses made up in a pinafore smock style reaching just below the knee . |
| 17 | On entering one , he discovered a home-brew still which the owners broke up in a trice , handing the retort to Yakovlev ‘ as a trophy ’ . |
| 18 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 19 | Later , when people got squeamish about that sort of thing , they substituted cats — a dozen or so live cats tied up in a sack . |
| 20 | Pancakes rolled up around a sandwich filling or salad . |
| 21 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 22 | For example , J. Goody has argued that West African states grew up as a result of monopoly control , by a small group of people , of military technology , which he terms the ‘ means of destruction ’ . |
| 23 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 24 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 25 | Now that we were being treated as human beings , rather than sorry creatures penned up in a basement , we could relax a bit , which gave us a chance to replenish our flagging energies . |
| 26 | You Judas ! ’ shouted the devil-man , and all the piglets woke up with a start and hurtled round the lock-up colliding with prisoners and shrieking like souls in torment : a blitz of piglets . |
| 27 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 28 | She spoke quite often of snowy landscapes glimpsed through carriage windows and small hands curled up in a muff made of grey fur , even though she could not have been more than three at the time . |
| 29 | GREEN-THINKING pupils cleaned up in a recycling competition to create new toys from old household items . |
| 30 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |