Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 2 | But , of course , the £50 deposit , at a time when the annual wage was less than £500 , was a powerful deterrent to all but the wealthiest families and remained so until the Baldwin Fund agreed to put up the money for children without guarantors or for foster parents who could not afford to pay . |
| 3 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , she did put up the money for the construction of Roshanara Bagh , a pleasure garden on the far outskirts of Shahjehanabad . |
| 5 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 6 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 7 | He had saved up the site for the right feeling . |
| 8 | Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months . |
| 9 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 10 | CCTV had to weigh up the demands for the series to be repeated with the views expressed by some Party members that ‘ Heshang ’ was subversive and dangerous . |
| 11 | Just before his departure , Ellis had set up the position for prop Harmon 's try . |
| 12 | How many years since he had whipped up the spirits for any party ? |
| 13 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 14 | By July 6 Mladenov 's own Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) had taken up the call for his resignation with an editorial in the party newspaper Duma . |
| 15 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |