Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | Quite apart from all this , computers took up an awful lot of space . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | TYPISTS rang up an average pay rise of 7.6 per cent last year — almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 6 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |