Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 32 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 33 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 34 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |
| 35 | Despite Hekmatyar 's public avowal that his war was with the Uzbek militia and not with other mujaheddin groups , analysts were agreed that he had stepped up the military pressure against the government to prevent Rabbani from consolidating his position and marginalizing the Hezb-i-Islami . |
| 36 | Hamish had taken up the managerial place at the factory that everyone had expected would be Kenneth 's , when Kenneth had decided to teach . |
| 37 | The little cavalryman , embodiment of all the ancient martial instincts and panache of the race , had taken up the German gauntlet . |
| 38 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 39 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 40 | Minor planning difficulties had held up the second phase so the Federation has to start with just three finished rooms . |
| 41 | By the time they had splashed up the far bank Nathaniel Sherman was fifty yards away , moving erratically , breasting the grass , preparing to risk a standing shot at two hundred yards . |
| 42 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |