Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mrs Kelsall set up a trust fund from the profits . |
| 32 | Mrs Garfitt picked up a cream horn and sniffed at it warily . |
| 33 | Mrs Files picked up a tea cloth , buried her face in it , laughing , then shook it at him with delighted outrage . |
| 34 | And punters saw £100,000 in winning bets vanish as the 13-8 favourite King Taros charged up a dead-end . |
| 35 | Salman Rushdie followed up a meeting with prominent Muslims on Christmas Eve by announcing his conversion to Islam . |
| 36 | At the far end of the century , in June 1596 , Lord Burghley drew up a note of matters to be considered by Queen and Council . |
| 37 | WAITRESS Delphine Barbiaux served up a surprise — by returning from the ‘ dead ’ . |
| 38 | In what must rank as one of the most ingenious ruses in the history of Hampden Babylon , Patsy Gallacher struck up a relationship with the hotel chambermaid and borrowed her clothes for the night . |
| 39 | Visitors to the Stoke-on-Trent stand picked up a Passport to the Potteries leaflet which allows them a discount when visiting sites of interest such as the Wedgwood Visitor Centre . |
| 40 | Bomb disposal experts from Catterick Garrison blew up a suspect bag left in the Town Hall Hotel , Richmond on polling night . |
| 41 | MONOPOLY : In 1929 after the Wall Street crash , jobless Charles Darrow dreamed up a property game based on the streets of his native Atlantic City . |
| 42 | Last November , the Two Castles Housing Association and Darlington Council set up a mortgage rescue scheme for people who found themselves threatened with repossession after falling into arrears . |
| 43 | NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half . |
| 44 | TERRY Waite passed up a chance of escape while he was held hostage because it would have meant shooting one of his captors , he reveals today . |
| 45 | TWENTY-FIVE years ago last month , a teenager by the name of the Hartley Peavey set up a business building guitar amps in his father 's music store in Meridian , Mississippi . |
| 46 | TWENTY-FIVE years ago last month , a teenager by the name of the Hartley Peavey set up a business building guitar amps in his father 's music store in Meridian , Mississippi . |
| 47 | A ROBBER wearing a Santa hat held up a bank with a sawn-off shotgun before escaping on a bicycle yesterday . |
| 48 | Skipper Viv Anderson picked up a knee injury while Danny Wilson ( ankle ) and Peter Shirtliff ( calf strain ) both missed yesterday 's match . |
| 49 | And Mister Johnny picked up a pitchfork … |
| 50 | AN explosion ripped through a man 's living room yesterday as he watched a TV film in which Michael Caine blew up a safe . |
| 51 | TRUE to the traditions of cup competitions , rugby union 's Pilkington version threw up a number of surprises in the last round , not least the demise of all three big West Country clubs . |
| 52 | His dazzling 10th goal of the season coupled with a 69th-minute opener from Ricky Harris set up a second round tie at home to Port Vale . |
| 53 | Cumbria 's Dave Swanson opened up a lead over Paul Dugdale after 5K , and stretched it into a 16-second victory . |
| 54 | On the news of the occupation of Andalusia by the French armies Buenos Aires set up a Junta which deposed the Viceroy in order to ‘ preserve ’ the Viceroyalty for Ferdinand VII . |