Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The tears came then with the tearing sobs that racked Hari and set up a trembling within her as though she had the ague .
2 Artisoft Inc has journeyed to Palo Alto , California from its backwoods base in Tucson , Arizona and signed up the Wollongong Group in a bid to give Lantastic users access to the Unix world .
3 She had n't eaten anything , just pushed a piece of ham around her plate to placate Penman and crumpled up a muffin .
4 Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth .
5 You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’
6 They are nonetheless a big comedown from the 1960s , when federal trustbusters took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox .
7 We also hired a speedboat in Ipsos and powered up the coast for a beautiful view .
8 Over in the Llanberis Pass , My Best Friend , HVS 5a , is a 350 foot line found by Phil Baxter and Matt Neil on Clogwyn Y Ddysgl , starting right of Gambit Climb , skirting Nunc Dimittis and finishing up The Ring .
9 In 1944 representatives of every allied government met in Chicago and drew up a convention containing ninety-six articles which were to provide the framework upon which civil aviation could be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War .
10 The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café .
11 He knelt before Dorn and held up the knife .
12 A bearer slipped in behind Owen and stood up a gun in the corner behind Garvin 's desk .
13 By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain .
14 Extend short term crisis support at home to East and West Lothian and set up an alarm scheme for frail elderly people in Midlothian .
15 So we ordered another Guinness and soaked up the atmosphere some more .
16 Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look .
17 ‘ Nightmare ’ of life under Labour Mr Norman Tebbit , the former Tory Party chairman , came to Darlington on Wednesday and conjured up a nightmare vision of life under Labour .
18 Brandt was determined to develop co-operation with eastern Europe in the hope of reducing tension in Europe and building up the independence of eastern states , and he believed that East Germany 's existence must be treated as a reality .
19 The convention established the International Civil Aviation Organization with its headquarters in Montreal and set up a secretariat which would become a most effective machine for ensuring that a rapidly developing civil aviation industry was not hampered by the red tape generated by the hundreds of frontiers that would have to be crossed .
20 He had worked along with Lutyens in the office of Sir Ernest George and set up a practice in Bourton on the Hill , Gloucestershire , where he was kept in constant commission by the smart hunting crowd .
21 When the war ended in 1813 , he returned to New York and took up an appointment in charge of the design and construction of ships for the U.S. Navy in its Brooklyn yard .
22 As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library .
23 Vanessa settles in New York and ends up a hooker .
24 In 1821 he joined in partnership with John Beckinton of Newcastle and set up an office at 14 Salthouse Lane , next door to the Hull branch of the Bank of England .
25 You can read in The Spectator of two hundred and sixty years ago that the streets of London were not safe at night because of the Mohawks , gangs who terrorised London and beat up the Watch , who tarred and feathered innocent citizens .
26 Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark .
27 He told the boy , she says , to go back to Wales and save up the money which would allow him to come to London with a certain degree of security .
28 All he had to do was stroll down to Underwoods and pick up a bit of dynercaprol and potassium chloride .
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