Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 2 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 3 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 4 | He bent to pick up the curl of hair , which he put carefully in his pocket , next to his heart . |
| 5 | As George bent to pick up the halter of the horse which the boy had been holding , he looked round the yard with interest , noting how his father 's voice , though by no means a shout , had penetrated every corner . |
| 6 | Fran turned to leave , then stopped to pick up the photograph of her father . |
| 7 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 8 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 9 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 11 | He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard . |
| 12 | The Coppergate bear commemorates the city 's Viking connection which stretch back 1,000 years and the Guy Fawkes bear , complete with its own poem , is a reminder that the man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament was born only a few doors from the shop . |
| 13 | The media helped to make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election but not very interested in politics generally . |
| 14 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 15 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 16 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 17 | The criterion-basis of the new examination seemed to open up the possibility of an assessment system that would be public , open , and uniform , yet applicable to virtually all pupils in school , whatever their ability . |
| 18 | Francis and Richard tend to play slightly ahead of the beat , and although it 's more than likely psychological I always felt that playing fingerstyle meant a sort of delay between playing something and hearing it , which seemed to mess up the impact of the songs . |
| 19 | The day after he 'd nailed up the door of the lavatory in the yard she used the indoor one straight after him . |
| 20 | Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it , as I recall . |
| 21 | the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when Guy Fawkes and others plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament . |
| 22 | The Japanese reluctantly agreed to limit the volume of exports to the EEC to 4½ million machines a year and , rather more cheerfully , agreed to put up the prices of their machines by at least £50 each . |
| 23 | Simon did n't answer , just turned in his swivel chair and began lacing up the front of Kim 's basque while still giving me my instructions . |
| 24 | As we began to pick up the threads of life in the south once more I found that in my absence from the cutter scene a brand new purpose-built cutter Venturous was operating with great success . |
| 25 | Wreaths to Johnathan and toys marked the spot where the devastation occurred , outside the Boots store in Bridge Street , as Warrington began to pick up the threads of normal life . |
| 26 | Stiffly , reluctantly , she rose to her feet and began to sweep up the litter of broken china . |
| 27 | He traced Maldom Bada 's dissent back to March 1991 when he declined to give up the post of MPS vice-president on being appointed Minister of the Interior . |
| 28 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 29 | This is the name of a computer language that an American firm called Microdata developed to speed up the business of interrogating a database . |
| 30 | She began rolling up the sleeves of her best dress . |