Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 2 | British car manufacturers built up an unenviable reputation over the late 1940s and in the 1950s in both respects [ Bhaskar , 1979 ; Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 3 | The Scots opened up a 20-shot lead over Ireland after just five ends and then pulled away to finish convincing 56-shot winners . |
| 4 | He was gnawed and pinched with cold ; the scabs on his knees showed up a bright purple because of the cold and his nose was red and raw-looking . |
| 5 | Quite apart from all this , computers took up an awful lot of space . |
| 6 | The immediate industrial crisis had been resolved , but inflation , which had been substantially boosted by the rise in world oil prices , continued to accelerate , and the discrepancy between price rises of 8 per cent and wage rises of 16 per cent over the six months stored up an acute problem of squeezed profitability . |
| 7 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 8 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 9 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 10 | • Four Petersfield drummers kept up a ten-hour drum-a-thon and raised £200 . |
| 11 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 12 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 13 | First-time guests peered up the dark oak staircase to the gallery murmuring , ‘ Mrs Danvers , ’ under their breath . |
| 14 | The schoolboys built up an early lead with first half tries from lock Owen Redmond , full-back John Ennis , scrum-half Brian O'Meara and wing forward Derek Suffern . |
| 15 | Several supports broke up the smooth appearance of the walls , and joined the floor and ceiling at angles that did n't seem really workable . |
| 16 | The anti-aircraft gunners kept up a steady fire , claiming nine aircraft shot down , including the Bf110 which crashed near Takali , and four other aircraft damaged . |
| 17 | After dinner , guests drifted up the steep basement stairs to the Bechstein in the drawing room to sing : at the last party I was at , Lennox Berkeley 's contemporaries , many in their eighties , and friends of their three sons , sang tunes like ‘ A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square ’ and ‘ Tea for Two ’ . |
| 18 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 19 | The badminton men 's singles threw up a new champion from a new store this year — Andy Peacock from Apsley Mills — who took the title from the holder , Phil shaw of Charlton depot , in two convincing sets . |
| 20 | Through such developments , a cadre of AEA managers went up the commercial learning curve . |
| 21 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 22 | At one point , the official , irrelevant , birthday fireworks lit up the marching protesters , to the accompaniment of deafening explosions . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the 1987 regulations picked up a large part of the requirements of the Bank Accounts Directive , but not all of them . |
| 24 | Short response items made up the initial sections of these tests . |
| 25 | And as six-month-old Farrah arrived back from Ireland with mum Bernadette and dad Shane , throngs of neighbours sent up a deafening cheer . |
| 26 | At Windsor , Fergie 's neighbours snapped up every available Mirror before breakfast . |
| 27 | Interestingly though , whereas physical abuse investigations took up a substantial amount of home visit time , the sexual abuse investigations were heavy on office interview time . |
| 28 | Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘ Yesterday Timisoara , today Bucharest . ’ |
| 29 | The knot of demonstrators summoned up a ragged cry and waved their tattered banners , but whether it was the sight of Edwina Currie or of Virginia Bottomley was not immediately evident . |
| 30 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |