Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 2 | Eleanor picked up the fresh flowers and began trimming their stems . |
| 3 | Ditchburn covered up the extra payments through a hugely inflated figure for the purchase of straw to protect the turf from frost . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 6 | This led to Unionist accusations that the SDLP was boycotting the process ; however , the Ulster Unionist Party announced on May 29 that it was also withdrawing until Brooke cleared up the procedural issues . |
| 7 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |