Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 8 | the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when Guy Fawkes and others plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The milling throng immediately surged forward and began to scramble up the ramps into the spacious interiors . |
| 13 | She began rolling up the sleeves of her best dress . |
| 14 | From the point when the water first burst the banks and began to rise up the gardens of the properties it was mainly a battle against he clock to try to stack everything as high as they could and take up the carpets . |
| 15 | She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life . |
| 16 | With a feeling of being ill-used she started to clear up the remains of last night 's dinner , while drinking a freshly squeezed orange juice , then eating a bowl of cereal . |
| 17 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |
| 18 | And even while that was happening , the chaotic nature of the theatre contrived to show up the differences between those who seek to entertain and the people charged with protecting our welfare . |
| 19 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 20 | First , by drawing a distinction between what it regarded as the natural ( and therefore genuine ) core of religion and the complex of authorities , traditions , institutions and doctrines which went to make up the forms of Christianity , it implied that much , indeed very much of the latter was redundant and could safely be jettisoned . |
| 21 | Among the shields are those of Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia and Upper and Lower Lusatia , the states that went to make up the lands of Bohemia . |
| 22 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 23 | DEAN SAUNDERS provided the spark which launched Aston Villa 's title challenge into orbit yesterday as his incredible goal-scoring streak continued to light up the skies above Villa Park . |
| 24 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 25 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 26 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 27 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 28 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 29 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 30 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |