Example sentences of "who [vb past] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 2 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 3 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 4 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 5 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 6 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 7 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 8 | Its nature is unknown , for the D text 's statement that they agreed to observe Edgar 's law was probably taken from the Letter of 1019 – 20 , itself influenced by Archbishop Wulfstan of York , who drew up a document after the meeting which stated that the witan had decided to zealously observe Edgar 's law . |
| 9 | It was Sir William Fleming , Sir Daniel 's son , ( Sir Daniel having died in 1701 ) who drew up a lease during 1703 reserving one-seventh as Royalty and requiring at least four able workmen to be employed for a minimum of six months in every year . |
| 10 | He was one of the managers who drew up the articles of impeachment of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 12 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 13 | Mr Smith , who drew up the report into purchasing powers , said the moves did not mean the end of existing district health authorities . |
| 14 | Local Stigmatic is about two Cockney thugs who beat up an actor in the pub because ‘ fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are . ’ |
| 15 | The story which most reminds me of animism ( if anything does ) is that of the angel who stirred up the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:1–15 ) . |
| 16 | I have nothing against yesterday 's guitar heroes , indeed it was the Iommi article that caused me to buy your magazine again , but whoever it was in your office who opened up a copy of NME and stuck a pin in it should be encouraged to do so again . |
| 17 | Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation . |
| 18 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 19 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 20 | So when the Wigan colliers threatened in 1792 to throw down the engines , they were seeking both to pressure the mine owner and to prevent him from reworking the pit with " blackleg " labour , also the likely object of Cornish miners who pulled up the ladders in a dispute of 1795 . |
| 21 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 22 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 23 | A beekeeper himself with 10 hives in the manse garden it was the Dean who dreamed up the idea of a honey service four years ago . |
| 24 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 25 | A FORMER soldier who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb because of a £140 debt was jailed for 12 years yesterday . |
| 26 | A MAN who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb , has been jailed for 12 years . |
| 27 | Brian George from Henley in Oxfordshire was the man who thought up the idea of the fraud . |
| 28 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 29 | Mr Foster , who took up the issue on behalf of farmers and operators , said : ‘ I am deeply disappointed that the Intervention Board has not accepted the strong arguments put forward in favour of the facility . ’ |
| 30 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |