Example sentences of "who [vb past] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’ |
| 2 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 3 | The design of the cap badge had been the result of a competition which was won by Sergeant Bob Tait who came up with the winged dagger emblem . |
| 4 | Despite that success , the playwright had difficulty raising the money to bring the comedy into the West End , although the backer who came up with the all-important £1,000 needed to clinch the deal was able to retire to a South Sea island on his share of the profits . |
| 5 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 6 | Likewise David Hart , General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers , who came up with the poetic gem : ‘ The Council is being made more and more the poodle of centralised government . ’ |
| 7 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 8 | It was Shelley who came up with the aggressive sounding Boadicea . |
| 9 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 10 | The conference theme ‘ A Better Mousetrap ’ , ties in with the centenary of crime novelist Agatha Christie , who turned up at The Old Swan after her own mysterious disappearance , and the titles of some of the papers will reflect the investigation , detection and arrest of some villains that threaten our property , our health or our lives . |
| 11 | As a regular attender of Irish League games could I suggest that the 22,000 who turned up for the United v Villa debacle perhaps try the fare served up in the Irish League which I 've no doubt they would find much more exciting ( unless Bangor and Ards are involved ! ) |
| 12 | You 're the strange one who turned up in a top hat . |
| 13 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 14 | But it was usually Billy who finished up with the lesser of the two . |
| 15 | These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit . |
| 16 | He remains at heart a boy who grew up on a busy farm at St Martin 's , 14 miles from Llanymynech , the course on which as a seven-year-old he first took a golf club in his hands . |
| 17 | Men and women who grew up during the swinging sixties may have a different view of sexual fidelity from those who are slightly older . |
| 18 | In fact he probably stands a round of beers with his mates every now and then on the strength of his unrequited schoolboy romance with a fluffy little classmate who grew up into a sexy , albeit pintsized superstar . |
| 19 | Soaps do n't usually focus on characters like this , people who grew up with the idealistic values of the 1960s and early 1970s , who have put off having children until their thirties , who worry about the environment but also worry about how they 're not managing to do enough about it . |
| 20 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 21 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 22 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 23 | Parents who grew up in the sixties , when the cult of the teenager first took hold , may still look and feel young and be unready to acknowledge that their children are growing up . |
| 24 | Written in 1962 by tennis star Pat Cash 's late aunt Deirdre Cash , who wrote under the pen-name Criana Rohan , it told the tale of working class urban lovers , who grew up in the harsh environment of Australia in the Fifties . |
| 25 | For most people who grew up before the sixties , skinheads are seen as yet another unpleasant and ugly aspect of modern youth . |
| 26 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 27 | To this end we will be working closely with Music Aid , a group of volunteers from the music world who set up after the tragic Ethiopian famine in the mid nineteen eighties . |
| 28 | Those returning Marines crashed their arms across their spreadeagle-painted chest plastrons , saluting Lord Pugh who stood up on a high balcony of traceried wrought tungsten . |