Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 2 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 3 | In the weeks following the dinner Lutyens swiftly drew up an elaborate set of plans . |
| 4 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 5 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 6 | Pamella spent four days under siege while the pack sat outside and merrily divvied up the 24-hour doorstep into shifts . |
| 7 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 8 | When Wattana effortlessly opened up a 2-0 advantage , Parrott looked in trouble again . |
| 9 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 10 | Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt . |
| 11 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 12 | This proved too much for Daniel Wilkinson , who nevertheless put up a sparkling display of shots and services . |
| 13 | Fran struggled briefly , but soon gave up the uneven match , letting herself rest against his chest while he stroked her hair with a surprisingly gentle hand . |
| 14 | Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style . |
| 15 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 16 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 17 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 18 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 19 | Bonar Law promptly gave up the whole idea , with obvious relief , as he told Balfour : |
| 20 | But after the convention , he launched his campaign with a spirited bus trip from New York to the Midwest and quickly ran up a daunting lead in the polls and held it until the campaign 's end . |
| 21 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 22 | A WINE bar , at the Anglesey end of Thomas Telford 's historic Menai Suspension Bridge , yesterday picked up a prestigious award . |
| 23 | POLICE yesterday picked up a discarded safe which was stolen from Darlington Health Authority 's offices . |
| 24 | Lyell made people aware by the 1830s of the great age of the Earth , and he also divided up the Tertiary period , using a statistical method based upon the proportions of existing species found among the fossils . |
| 25 | She also kept up a vigorous campaign against the expansion of Geale 's fish and chip restaurant near her house : she said the smells made her garden unusable . |
| 26 | I thought he probably set up a stronger howl than Byron 's dogs ! |
| 27 | They also set up a light-engineering works ( one of a number throughout the Prussian east ) at Dirschau ( Tczew ) . |
| 28 | RANGERS ' fourth successive championship seems assured after their 2–1 win over Dundee United at Tannadice , which also set up a Premier Division scoring record . |
| 29 | He also set up a theatrical agency with a J. H. Milburn . |
| 30 | He also set up the renowned Creature Shops to develop animatronics for the film and television industries and which recently made the masks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |