Example sentences of "it [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 2 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 3 | She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace . |
| 4 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 5 | Once this new mode of production began to replace the old , it threw up a new class of owners . |
| 6 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 7 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 8 | Instead , it cooked up a market-sharing deal with Du Pont that was to last until 1944 , when it was the subject of a celebrated American antitrust suit . |
| 9 | It worked up a fair frenzy over the Tory leadership contest , describing Herself 's terribly threatening opponent as , variously , a ‘ dotty baronet ’ ( November 29 ) ; ‘ the Bufton Tufton of the Tory back benches ’ ( November 30 ) ; and ‘ The fossil ’ ( December 1 ) . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 11 | It cleaned up the European Car of the Year award for 1992 against some formidable competition , though only two out of the seven British judges gave it top ranking . |
| 12 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 13 | It was located on Ocean Drive , between C and D ; it took up the entire block . |
| 14 | The trip was hazardous , as bilge-water created a stability problem and the Coastguard searchlight was now a hindrance as it lit up the flying spray . |
| 15 | Anyway , whatever its name , it put up a noble fight before it was gaffed and brought on board , and I had my photograph taken with the catch after we landed back on the beach . |
| 16 | Now , with Iran-contra , it summoned up the snoozing president ; a leader who , despite all appearances , put no more of his substance into government than the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz . |
| 17 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 18 | The combination roared along Castle Walk , echoing into the empty courtyard of the Berkeley Hunt kennels as it careered up the last hill into the tiny village . |
| 19 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 20 | It ended up a deserved win , thankfully , but it could so easily have been a draw . |
| 21 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 22 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 23 | The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education . |
| 24 | Morton 's first overseas venture was in the UK in 1964 , when it set up a joint venture in Coventry to distribute the LP polymer . |