Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workers studied by Westwood made up clothes from pre-cut pieces of cloth , using sewing machines and presses to finish them . |
| 2 | Parental smoking was dichotomised ( regular or occasional smoker v non-smoker , former smoker or not known ) , and father 's occupation was categorised into four groups : manual , non-manual , unemployed , and not known ( this last category made up 21% ( 943 ) of the 4538 responses ) . |
| 3 | The bitter sarcasm welled up unbidden . |
| 4 | 6 October : The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon this afternoon visited Up Hatherley , Cheltenham , and was received on arrival at Staverton Airport by Her Majesty 's Lord-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire ( Colonel Martin Gibbs ) . |
| 5 | As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place . |
| 6 | Soldiers set up barbed-wire fences , electricians wired up searchlights , carpenters built barracks and sentry boxes on elevated platforms . |
| 7 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 8 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 9 | Her eyes ate up Nicandra 's beaded satin , and shifted disapprovingly from Lalage 's muslins — a clothes snob to the last . |
| 10 | The French were restless , and Joan of Arc stirred up patriotism and led a revolt against the reign of King Henry VI . |
| 11 | Vaux served up £30.91m ( £34.34m ) profits to October 3 , after pumping out £35m on 270 new pubs and £25m on revamps and new brewing equipment . |
| 12 | As the bomber hung up Eileen had already reached for another phone to warn the police . |
| 13 | A major longitudinal study followed up residents in 175 homes for elderly people and found no evidence of continuing upward trends in overall levels of dependency ( Booth et al . , |
| 14 | In Uzbekistan , President Islam Karimov stepped up pressure on the democratic and Islamic opposition and tightened border controls with Tajikistan . |
| 15 | Similarly a few LEAs stepped up pressure on schools to implement anti-sexist policies , asking for school policies within a particular time limit ( e.g. Brent , ILEA ) pressuring heads to implement change ; organizing inservice courses ( Humberside , Brent ) replacing text books and appointing Advisers/Inspectors . |
| 16 | Both Hanger and Leeman broke up heads with the Stanley skip being obliged to do so more often — largely due to the continuing accuracy of Harrington , the Brackley No 2 . |
| 17 | For example , today 's Daily Mail decided to have on its front page — coincidence I am certain — to go with the Bill : ’ Cheating Refugee Rang Up £117,000 Phone Bill ’ . |
| 18 | Pakistan called up allrounder Ijaz Ahmed for the one-day internationals at the end of their tour of England . |
| 19 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 20 | Shoulders brought up head forced down |
| 21 | David took up rowing at Portora and has won the Irish novice sculling and intermediate fours championships with BRC . |
| 22 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 23 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 24 | But Richard brought up siege machines and began to bombard the walls , concentrating on the fourth side where a small town nestled at the foot of the citadel . |
| 25 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |
| 26 | The next day Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) guerrillas loyal to Chairman Yassir Arafat took up positions in the hills , ostensibly to act as a " buffer force " . |
| 27 | Flares lit up parts of the sprawling capital as tracer bullets criss-crossed the night sky . |
| 28 | Commissioner Descaves bought up canvases ten at a time , at a hundred francs each . |
| 29 | At Egyption Slabs , Cris Mellor and Dennis Crampton put up Silverado , E1 5b , between Fool 's Gold and Wallybaldi . |
| 30 | His horse put up waterfowl and once disturbed a whole field of rabbits that scampered in panic towards the hedgerows . |