Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
2 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
3 | The British — who had dreamed up the Free City idea in the first place — came out of the exercise very badly , while the Dutch and Italians did rather better . |
4 | Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake , obscuring vision . |
5 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
6 | They had walked up the worn stone staircase , arm in arm , with their beautiful girl child dancing around them . |
7 | Strathclyde , a huge left-Labour-controlled council , had not even set up the required risk-capital fund . |
8 | It was reported on Feb. 6 that a presidential decree of Jan. 29 had set up the Atomic Energy Ministry ( Minatom ) of the Russian Federation . |
9 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
10 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
11 | To counteract that Murphy has set up the Edinburgh-based PR Centre . |
12 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
13 | Shell UK has started up the new ethylbenzene production unit at its Stanlow manufacturing complex . |