Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a year ago , Matthey Beyrand set up a programme which ensures total control of its lead times . |
| 2 | Gavin Hastings finds no room for manoeuvre as ( l–r ) Wales ' Ieuan Evans and Roger Bidgood turn up the heat at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State Kenneth Baker set up a committee in 1957 , charged with the task of examining A levels ( the Higginson Committee ) . |
| 4 | General Dornberg tore up the despatch . |
| 5 | Off stage , singer Sheila Ferguson cooks up a soul food storm |
| 6 | Inverdarroch : His typewriter , her knittin' machine , Laura Ashley patchwork kit cushion covers , jugs o' weeds on the mantelpiece and the collected works of Lillian Beckwith takin' up a hail shelf of the stripped pine kitchen dresser ! |
| 7 | Hampden Babylon picks up the challenge , but shifts the spotlight away from Hollywood and its tinsel stardom to the less glamorous football grounds of Scotland , where a cast list of rogues , reprobates and reckless drivers star in the most squalid film never made . |
| 8 | ‘ In stepped Newcastle 's dreaded rivals Sunderland , and Lawrie McMenemy stumped up the cash . |
| 9 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 10 | Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news . |
| 11 | British Mogul Champion Neil Munro sums up the problem . |
| 12 | When Estella finally came , with her candle , along the dark passage , Miss Havisham picked up a jewel from her table and put it in Estella 's hair . |
| 13 | The police driver shot Jamie a look of enquiry which he missed , occupied as he was with guiding Miss Williams back up the hill . |
| 14 | David Skinner heads up the project team . |
| 15 | Miss Fergusson summed up the exchange so far , needless as this seemed to her companion . |
| 16 | Dan Jennings , Mari-Ann Dore and Rebecca Grisewood make up the backing group , and the girls also performed a duet . |
| 17 | Miss Gilberd picked up the receiver , and dialled . |
| 18 | ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’ |
| 19 | Ken Stevens tipped up the wheelbarrow then stood back to rest for a moment . |
| 20 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |
| 21 | A century from professional Raman Lamba set up the total of for two with Sam Gilliland making an unbeaten 74 . |
| 22 | J K Galbraith drew up a range of alternative situations as shown on the next page : |
| 23 | But Lancashire manager David Hughes cleared up the situation later , saying : ‘ It was a complete accident . |
| 24 | But Lancashire manager David Hughes cleared up the situation later , saying : ‘ It was a complete accident . |
| 25 | Flt Sgt David Russell ended up a prisoner of war in the Far East . |
| 26 | Thus Dr David Evans summed up the reaction of Catalytic Systems Division to the double award in 1993 of the Queens Award for Environmental Achievement and the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement to CSD in the UK . |
| 27 | As they went upstairs , Miss Evans rolled up the drugget behind them . |
| 28 | Anguish : Mrs Ellen Owens clears up the muck and water from her Conwy Morfa flat Picture : COLIN PAXTON |
| 29 | Meanwhile , General Stilwell advanced up the Hukawng Valley with American-trained Chinese troops . |
| 30 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |