Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We helped with putting up the shelves and we filled all the bottles in each shop . |
| 2 | For the next ten years , Richard II concentrated on building up a reputation with a reputably good government beside him against his powerful uncles . |
| 3 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 4 | Up to 50 images can be stored at once and if that is not enough , you can always transfer the images to an Apple Powerbook to make more space — a bit of a culture shock for anyone used to filling up a camera bag with film and dashing off to the nearest photo lab . |
| 5 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 6 | When it came to setting up the Friends , I found the words ‘ realistic ’ or ‘ moderation ’ did n't have much meaning for me . |
| 7 | This consisted of cutting up the body into pieces and boiling it in wine or vinegar until fat and flesh separated from the bones . |
| 8 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 9 | Master butcher Howard Callaghan returned from picking up an award for a pork window display to discover the plate glass front of the shop blown away . |
| 10 | Many felt they would benefit from the assistance of trained cancer counsellors , so work began on setting up the course . |
| 11 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 12 | Three years ago , eight I R A men were shot dead when they attempted to blow up Loughgall 's police station ; close to the anniversary of those deaths this year , the I R A succeeded in blowing up the base . |
| 13 | Dropping six of the eight singles points proved their undoing against France , losing 7-4 , while they never recovered from giving up the foursomes to the Italians . |
| 14 | Mr Talbott talked of building up a relationship , of advocacy at the IMF , of encouraging private-sector capital and helping with privatisation . |
| 15 | The UDC decided against taking up the issue , judging that , despite the breadth of opposition , when the Government made up its mind that conscription was necessary , the defence of civil liberties would crumble before the appeals of patriotism . |
| 16 | She broke down in tears and confessed to making up the story of how she was abducted and held by two men for 36 hours . |
| 17 | At first I thought about setting up a series of divisions throughout the length of the hall which would demarcate it rhythmically . |
| 18 | Grayson played soccer for Parklands High School before going on to Preston College where he played a little rugby in 1989 but never thought of taking up the game . |
| 19 | For a few minutes , Hope thought of saddling up a horse and riding the eight miles up to Keswick . |
| 20 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 21 | She dreamed of floating up the aisle in frothy white , to stand beside a dark-suited figure . |
| 22 | Proceeded with tidying up the beach from MH4 eastwards . |
| 23 | All the resources of the place went into keeping up the God-Kings life-style , rather than improving the lives of the people . |
| 24 | The concept is not a difficult one , for the last two sections have made it clear that what really mattered in setting up a trust was not the use of specific words , but the use of words or deeds which plainly expressed an intention to bind a trustee under a trust in favour of a beneficiary . |
| 25 | As soon as he was up and about he insisted on taking up a Magister and flying it one-handed , and before long he was back on operations with an artificial arm . |
| 26 | I gave them as long as I dared before cutting up a newsprint lorry and following them . |
| 27 | Dr. Tolba , widely respected for the critical role played by UNIP in achieving the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion , is looking forward to the London Conference on Climate next June aimed at toughening up the Montreal guidelines . |
| 28 | Opposition parties of both the left and the right accused the government of surrendering to the dictates of the World Bank and the IMF , but on March 9 the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) approved by a simple voice vote the government 's sweeping economic reforms , as detailed in the budget , which aimed at opening up the country 's protected economy . |
| 29 | When a servant came up with the telephone , and apologised for breaking up the dancing couple , he could n't know how relieved they both were . |
| 30 | Last month I wrote about setting up the ribber and making sure it was correctly aligned with the main bed . |