Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 2 | Following the report , the National Union of Teachers ' ‘ stress project team ’ then drew up an organisational action plan which , it argued , would , if implemented , reduce the sources of stress . |
| 3 | First-time guests peered up the dark oak staircase to the gallery murmuring , ‘ Mrs Danvers , ’ under their breath . |
| 4 | In this way Dr. Bach built up a complete medicine chest of thirty-eight flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 5 | The South Saxons whose numbers we shall never know with any accuracy , built up a complex Wealden farming system , backed by a communication network that can only have been an extension of the lesser economic roads of the Romano-Britons . |
| 6 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 7 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 8 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 9 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 10 | He jumped sideways in sudden fright as Sweetheart snatched up a brown paper carrier-bag with looped string handles and flung it across the room . |
| 11 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 12 | We drove up a steep gravel path , and soon beheld the well , Tobernalt . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 15 | Norwich 's victory opened up a four- point lead at the top of the table with their fifth win on the trot . |
| 16 | The introduction in the early 1960s of the state ‘ graduated ’ pension scheme , an earnings-related second-tier provision for lower income employees not in occupational pension schemes , opened up a growing gender gap in employee pension coverage . |
| 17 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 18 | Navratilova had watched in awe as Evert opened up the rain-delayed Federation Cup semi-final between the United States and Czechoslovakia to set her team on the way to a 2-0 victory . |
| 19 | Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers . |
| 20 | Further research turned up a small shipping business , but it was modest indeed beside the kind of wealth claimed by Kleinworts . |
| 21 | Liberated , Ethel frisked with a Jack Russell in a red , spotted scarf and wolfed up a half-eaten beefburger bun . |
| 22 | About 1615 , in the field known as ‘ Dead Man ‘ s Holm ’ , a workman dug up an ancient bronze hunting horn . |
| 23 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |
| 24 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 25 | The five members of the old politburo [ see p. 37317 ] , with the addition of Budyn Sum'yaa ( hitherto Minister of Culture ) , made up the new party presidium . |
| 26 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 27 | Had drunk tea herself , telephoned Louise , taken Edward aside and explained , made up the spare room bed . |
| 28 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 29 | This year 's games , however , did not have the human interest of Calgary — Eddie Edwards , the Jamaican bob-sleigh team 's reggae single , or the four waiters ( coached by their dad ) who made up the Mexican bob team . |
| 30 | Albert Tatlock and Elsie Tanner made up the old guard gang of four |