Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 2 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 3 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 4 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 5 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
| 6 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |
| 7 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |
| 8 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is just 21 months since we received approval to go ahead with the project , and we are delighted that we have started up production within a few weeks of a date that many thought was unrealistic ! ’ |
| 10 | Today a fully paid up member of the Conservative Party . |