Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over . |
| 2 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 3 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 4 | This method is also ideal if you have to reknit a neckband or have sewn up the second shoulder in error . |
| 5 | AN Asian family who have built up a thriving business in one of Scotland 's jobless blackspots are being kicked out of Britain . |
| 6 | This was vintage Glenavon , recovering from a rocky start to take apart a team who had built up a fearsome reputation in a 26-match unbeaten run locally . |
| 7 | This was vintage Glenavon , recovering from a rocky start to take apart a team who had built up a fearsome reputation in a 26-match unbeaten run locally . |
| 8 | For borrowers who have built up a sizeable stake in their property , she points out that the Cheltenham & Gloucester ( 0452 372372 ) has reversed the usual lender 's practice of offering bigger discounts on larger loans . |
| 9 | Josselin gradually built up a large farm in Earls Colne , starting with a land purchase in 1646 . |
| 10 | Whitehead Mann has built up an enviable concentration in the top end of the market , attracting some particularly senior and thus highly remunerative assignments . |
| 11 | They had consolidated their position since the fifteenth century and had latterly built up an impregnable position in the social infrastructure of the region . |
| 12 | Sniffing crossly , she went upstairs herself and lovingly hung up the Persian lamb in the clothes closet . |
| 13 | ‘ The wife has already made up a spare bed in Susan 's room . |
| 14 | Cleveland Child Protection Committee has drawn up a new constitution in a bid to stamp out physical and sexual abuse in children as well as neglect and ill treatment . |
| 15 | Through nominees he 'd bought up a major holding in the company . |
| 16 | Because so much of the commercial law trade go through London , have opened up a second front in the capital . |
| 17 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 18 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 19 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 20 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 21 | [ Before du Pre 's death in 1987 , he had quietly set up a second household in Paris with the former wife of violinist Gideon Kramer . ] |
| 22 | Since leaving in March , he had set up a private school in St. Peter 's Parsonage , with about sixty pupils from his old school . |
| 23 | It has also increased marketing activities into the growing Far Eastern markets of China , Singapore and Taiwan , and has set up a new subsidiary in Hong Kong . |
| 24 | Seraph , run by Liz Place , has set up a new office in Grange Road to take on staff in the Darlington area . |
| 25 | First , the Stock Exchange has set up a new market in company equities called the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) . |
| 26 | Sergei Nazarev , who has set up a business-information consultancy in Yekaterinburg , fears that foreign investment is no guarantee of success . |
| 27 | Thoroughbred Software International has set up a German office in Herrenberg under the charge of Lothar Jaus . |
| 28 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 29 | Patrick Wilson beautifully summed up the overall problem in a general sense : |
| 30 | Bowie , whose admiration is tinged with honest caution , has summed up the Lacanian system in these words : |