Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Souness has axed £1.3million David James and recalled Grobbelaar to shore up a leaky defence that has conceded 20 goals in 11 League and Cup games this season .
2 Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans .
3 There he ordered Cronus to vomit up the other children , who then became the gods of Olympus .
4 The slow progress of PWA led Roosevelt to set up a large-scale temporary relief agency , the Civil Works Administration ( CWA ) , to see the nation through the winter .
5 Griffin , from the Mount Tallant club , still had problems with his vision in the contest though he led 8–6 going into the third round which saw Gornei put up a storming last stand to bring the fighters level .
6 That enabled Northampton to set up a five-yard scrum and they pushed Nottingham over their line to score a try touched down by Shelford .
7 With the wind advantage in the second half , St Aloysius took command and on only two occasions did Galashiels set up a sustained attack .
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