Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 2 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 3 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 5 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 6 | Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird . |
| 7 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 8 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 9 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 10 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 11 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 12 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |
| 13 | Fazal said that you had met up with the men and had started work . |
| 14 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 15 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 16 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 17 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 18 | The bitch had grown up alongside the children , and was all the more charming for it , but bureaucracy had spoken . |
| 19 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 20 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 21 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 22 | The practice of fasting had grown up amongst the Pharisees as a sign of their superiority . |
| 23 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 24 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 25 | He dealt quickly with the Romanian trip until that day when they had driven up into the mountains to visit Putna . |
| 26 | Exactly opposite Grace a heap of crates which had driven up through the bends and reaches , twenty miles from Gravesend , was at rest in the slack water , enchanted apparently , not moving an inch one way or the other . |
| 27 | They polished off most of the sausages , which they seemed greatly to enjoy , and Bith of the Bog-Hat and Flaherty shared a firkin of the giants ' ale , which Balor had brought up from the cellars . |
| 28 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 29 | Bodie had cut up through the rows of parked cars , swinging up onto the half ramp , and pumping two shots into the van 's front tyre . |
| 30 | Conversation had started up among the customers in the tavern again , although two had left while the company had been talking amongst themselves . |