Example sentences of "who [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 2 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 3 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 4 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 5 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |
| 6 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 7 | Most of the Poles who went to Russia in the belief that this would help to restore their country 's independent existence never returned : of the 82,000 Poles who made up the Grand Armée 's V Corps , only 2,300 survived the retreat from Moscow . |
| 8 | Taxis , limousines and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces disgorged their occupants and luggage twenty trunks or more for some passengers — into a crowd of porters , stewards , sleek businessmen , tycoons , bright young things , would-bc debutantes , aristocrats , parvenus , celebrities , movie-stars , and all the families and friends who made up the send-off party . |
| 9 | This year 's games , however , did not have the human interest of Calgary — Eddie Edwards , the Jamaican bob-sleigh team 's reggae single , or the four waiters ( coached by their dad ) who made up the Mexican bob team . |
| 10 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 11 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 12 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 13 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 14 | Historically , though , it was mountaineers from Britain who opened up the central part of the range in the heyday of Victorian adventure . |
| 15 | Stunned police hunting the maniacs who rigged up the deadly device said the 13-year-old should have been killed instantly . |
| 16 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 17 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 18 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 19 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 20 | The document was found among the many original musical manuscripts left by Lucien Garban , an intimate friend who kept up a fascinating correspondence with the composer . |
| 21 | The vituperative messages which poured forth in a veritable torrent of abuse were repeatedly drowned by the dissenting majority who kept up an incessant chant : ‘ Return to work . |
| 22 | A QUARRY worker who blew up a 19th century listed Methodist chapel was jailed yesterday with the property developer who hired him . |
| 23 | For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident . |
| 24 | One woman , who took up a new career in midlife , described how her mother , who had always had a great appetite for life , now seemed.to live through her . |
| 25 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 26 | This ‘ seeing God ’ , a project not just for the afterlife , not just ‘ jam tomorrow ’ , was the high ambition of anyone who took up a penitential life . |
| 27 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 28 | Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin . |
| 29 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 30 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |