Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 2 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 3 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 4 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 5 | He also introduced a bleachfield to supplement the local cloth trade , and built up a local mining and coal-selling business . |
| 6 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |
| 7 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 8 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 9 | In her room Phoebe pulled on her jeans and a shirt , and snatched up a thick pullover and the bottom half of her track suit for Maggie . |
| 10 | The Champagne houses were naturally outraged at the government 's ineptitude and drew up a vociferous protest , signed by eighty participants , condemning the publicity given to the ministerial communiqué . |
| 11 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 13 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 14 | A Shrewsbury architect , Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , had the idea and drew up the original plan , but the design was modified in the process of building the bridge . |
| 15 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 16 | He turned his head and spat , then buckled and retched up a thin stream of vomit . |
| 17 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 18 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 19 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 20 | Liberated , Ethel frisked with a Jack Russell in a red , spotted scarf and wolfed up a half-eaten beefburger bun . |
| 21 | He had set some water on to boil and rigged up a makeshift affair of branches for her to hang her clothes on to dry . |
| 22 | But within three minutes of the re-start , Sergei Babkov 's two giant three-pointers had punctured English morale as Russia went into overdrive and opened up a 49–40 advantage . |
| 23 | In glorious sunshine the Hillsborough driver took the lead on stage one with his Village Homes Escort Cosworth , and opened up a one minute margin over championship leader Stephen Emerson , before centre differential failure saw his lead almost cut in half . |
| 24 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 25 | She leaned and opened up a flat box . |
| 26 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 27 | Isabel removed the seven of diamonds from the third row , placed it over the six , on the seventh row , and turned up a new card , the four of hearts . |
| 28 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 29 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 30 | He made a sort of ducking movement to acknowledge his orders and tipped up the nearest chair so that its burden of garments slithered to the flagstones . |