Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 2 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
| 3 | His remarks are reinforced by the fact that , according to the DTI 's Overseas Trade Service , more than 2,000 British companies have already established subsidiaries in France or have set up some form of joint venture with French companies . |
| 4 | Executive elites have tried to exempt certain policy zones from judicial oversight , or have set up specialized tribunals , committees , and boards , staffed by experts who employ inquisitorial rather than adversarial methods of establishing the truth . |
| 5 | On top of that , other money from the fund was left untouched and has built up substantial interest . |
| 6 | But it may be that the company is producing a range of products and has set up separate units or subsidiaries to exploit each product market . |
| 7 | His son , Bill , works in the glost ovens department at Barlaston and has notched up 48 years with the company . |
| 8 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 9 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 10 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 11 | A good choice could give you years of pleasure : the oldest authenticated Koi was a Higoi owned by Dr Komei Koshihara which , at the time of its death in 1968 , weighed 16½ lb and had clocked up 217 years . |
| 12 | Some Victorian market towns acquired a pronounced industrial character , especially after the railways had provided cheaper raw materials and had opened up distant markets . |
| 13 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 14 | The more militant among them have formed a bakers ' commando and have blown up several stores belonging to their ‘ industrial ’ enemies . |
| 15 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |