Example sentences of "[vb past] up by [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 2 | His interest in media started as a by-product of buying the House of Fraser , initially a large department stores group built up by a nationalistic Scot , Lord Fraser of Annandale . |
| 3 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 4 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 5 | Eventually , stirred up by a fire-breathing minister called Reverend George Whitefield , the mob , that is to say , congregation , censored the proceedings by the simple expedient of pulling the theatre to bits . |
| 6 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 7 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 8 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 9 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 10 | He was one of those who saw the possibilities opened up by the cheaper paper , and the coming of machine-made cases instead of hand bookbindings , of about 1830 . |
| 11 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 12 | Collective deliberation on the basis of choices served up by the official machine go against Mrs Thatcher 's personal grain . |
| 13 | As far as the material goes , his is more than equal to that served up by the aforementioned pair . |
| 14 | For free the solicitor then discusses with the client the legal aspects of the business and its plans , how it operates , ‘ key contractual and legal rights and obligations ’ and recommendations for any action , all followed up by a written summary . |
| 15 | Not only does Rutland no longer exist , swallowed up by a greater Leicestershire , but the trains which cross the old county now only stop at Oakham , its last surviving station . |
| 16 | At the same time , GKR has not been sold out and swallowed up by a larger organisation , as have MSL by Saatchi & Saatchi and Norman Broadbent by Charles Barker , although there is an element of outside shareholding . |
| 17 | When she reached the stable-yard , Moonbeam was saddled up and ready , tied up by the mounting block but there was no sign of Jonnie Medd , the young groom who usually accompanied her . |
| 18 | If no such election is made , the profits of the firm must be taxed as if , on the departure of the outgoing partner , the existing business had closed and a new business started up by the continuing partners . |
| 19 | Our takings went up by a few shillings each week and pretty soon we had to expand and move the kitchens upstairs , where Malc 's Mom made our famous home-made pies ' . |
| 20 | Nigel Martyn , the goalkeeper he bought from Bristol Rovers for £1 million , has turned out to be a snip , his acrobatics saving the day when United penetrated Palace 's back four , newly shored up by the strapping Andy Thorn . |
| 21 | The two youngsters found the going much easier this time , with the way ahead lit up by the bobbing light of their new-found ally 's powerful flashlight . |
| 22 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 23 | In Hatfield Chase today , you can see a sign put up by a local farmer with a sense of humour . |
| 24 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |
| 25 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 26 | At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days . |
| 27 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 28 | SINA had been an inspired hoax dreamt up by the imaginative Mr Abel ( of whom more presently ) . |
| 29 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 30 | Sir : Now that the dust kicked up by the mass raid on the Broadwater Farm estate last week has begun to settle , it is time to embark upon an assessment of its effects . |