Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 2 | When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets . |
| 3 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 4 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 5 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |