Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goran Ivanisevic , Michael Chang , Petr Korda , Boris Becker and Richard Krajicek make up the eight . |
| 2 | Former county champion Lindsay Taylor is fifth while Steven Souter , Jevon Chan and Steven Cooper make up the eight seeds . |
| 3 | Well a great situation Scott Gemmell followed up the long ball picked up the as they ran at the defence and then he 's committed to play it and then he 's just just slid it in nicely for Kingsley Black on his left side . |
| 4 | Al Gore summed up the changing world when he said that he and Clinton were the first two leaders of their country to be born after 1945 . |
| 5 | ALEXANDRE NADOBENKO of the Kazakhstan team powered up the cobbled William Brown Street for victory at the end of the 116-miles 10th stage of the 1,150-mile Milk Race from Sheffield to Liverpool yesterday . |
| 6 | Glasgow St Enoch Square picked up the Scottish award , Blackpool South Shore were tops in the North of England , and Maidenhead were champions in the South of England . |
| 7 | Through such developments , a cadre of AEA managers went up the commercial learning curve . |
| 8 | With that warning Sergeant Hanafin cycled up the narrow dusty road leaving Bull O'Malley staring after him . |
| 9 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 10 | USL expects Sparc compatible builders like ICL plc to pick up the former , with the Japanese and maybe firms in the Mips ABI group going for the other . |
| 11 | Félicité et Perpétue crept up the mellow brickwork , and Gloire de Dijon climbed higher , and there were heavy dark crimson Bourdons and Portland roses in the borders and pink Ce/1leste clumped at the corners with its paler leaves . |
| 12 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
| 13 | In the continuing war of words between reformers and hardliners , Mr Nemeth conjured up the best insult of the day when he referred to his opponents as ‘ Stone Age conservatives ’ . |
| 14 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 15 | The lead was extended by Rory Malone picking up the loose ball 7 minutes into the 2nd half , 15-4 down . |
| 16 | Bruce Lee cleans up the white slave/narcotics market on an off-shore Chinese island , and he and co-star John Saxon polish off hundreds of Kung-fu experts . |
| 17 | Once the firms ' merger was in place , Mr Morrison took up the thorny issue of rationalising the accountancy profession . |
| 18 | The collection continues to expand , mostly by donation but a very small purchase grant enables Mr Rosoman to pick up the occasional piece at auction : he recently purchased some papier mache moulds at the Christie 's Crowther sale . |
| 19 | Sir Thomas picked up the empty glass , replaced it , continuing brokenly : ‘ … |
| 20 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 21 | Harry Truman summed up the central dilemma of presidential power when , in reference to his successor , he said , ‘ He 'll sit here , and he 'll say , ‘ Do this ! |
| 22 | Albert Tatlock and Elsie Tanner made up the old guard gang of four |
| 23 | HUNCHED over something very similar to the control deck on Starship Enterprise , Sam Coombes slid up the tape-monitor levers and pressed a series of buttons marked ‘ Remix ’ . |
| 24 | This year Ian McCartney took up the new post of Student Enterprise Officer and this addition to the staff has greatly facilitated student enterprise activities . |
| 25 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 26 | Judge Gabriel Hutton summed up the tragic case . |
| 27 | After surviving the acquisition by SunSoft Inc of the greater part of his former employer — Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp — where he was European director , before going to become manager of Northern Europe for Sun Microsystems Inc 's software subsidiary , industry veteran Doug Miller last week resigned from the company ‘ to pursue other interests ’ after Peter Watkins was moved from SunSoft 's Mountain View , California headquarters to take up the newly-created position of general manager for SunSoft in Europe ; Watkins is also responsible for Northern Europe ( which includes the UK ) until a replacement for Miller is found . |
| 28 | Hearn and others 1977 ) Lord Denning summed up the legal position of trade unions as follows : |
| 29 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 30 | A MORE considered , romantic and melancholy version of the above , with Henry Fonda 's Wyatt Earp cleaning up the nightmarish town of Tombstone , making the community safe for the church-going , square-dancing just plain folks who have been hiding in the shadows while the Clanton gang runs riot . |