Example sentences of "[vb past] up [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 2 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 3 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 4 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 5 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 6 | Brenda washed up mugs at the sink . |