Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
2 | The noise echoed over the water which seemed to suck up the sound . |
3 | Francis and Richard tend to play slightly ahead of the beat , and although it 's more than likely psychological I always felt that playing fingerstyle meant a sort of delay between playing something and hearing it , which seemed to mess up the impact of the songs . |
4 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
5 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
6 | But I missed the more dramatic sting inflicted on Gloucestershire 's Mark Davies , by a bee which had gone up the trouser leg and reached the left-arm spinner 's more intimate regions . |
7 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
8 | However , the president of the National Reconciliation Commission , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , asserted that " important progress " had been made , which had opened up the prospect of a comprehensive agreement on human rights . |
9 | The fare was 10/ — ( 50p ) , and then there was lunch , often taken at one of the new mass-market eating-places , such as the Quality Inns , which had sprung up no doubt to satisfy the American G.I.s ' taste in food : ‘ Aunt Mary 's Home-made Apple Pie ’ was constantly on the menu . |
10 | Joaquín Villalobos , 41 , a senior FMLN commander , made an historic appearance on June 17 before the US House of Representatives commission on hemispheric affairs to help explain the obstacles which had held up the peace process . |