Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 2 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 3 | And he half hopped and half flew up the rough beach , stopping frequently to see that she was following , until with a final struggle they got back to safe rocks along the cliffs over the tideline . |
| 4 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 5 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 6 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 7 | In desperation the British gave up the Palestinian mandate in May 1948 , while trying to rescue what they could of their relationship with the Arabs . |
| 8 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 9 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 10 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 11 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 12 | This held up the whole meeting and finally it was decided to postpone the event for over an hour , so we all left the track . |
| 13 | After considerable lobbying , the Television Act was passed in 1954 and this set up the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) to supervise a federal structure of commercially funded television companies , each serving a different region or market . |
| 14 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |
| 15 | This set up the next cycle by index arbitrageurs , and so on . |
| 16 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 17 | We 've a big mechanical saw up the end there . |
| 18 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 19 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | To alleviate hardship when a bank becomes insolvent the Banking Act 1979 set up the Deposit Protection Fund . |
| 21 | Mrs Bowden 's brother is Nigel Watts , who in 1984 took up the campaign against the insurance company , which had lain dormant since 1978 . |
| 22 | ‘ The Front de Liberation National blew up the second largest gendarmerie in Algiers this morning . |
| 23 | Half of these gave up the drug ( British Medical Journal . |
| 24 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 25 | On the Cobbler 's South Peak , Gary Latter ventured up the slab directly above the start of Osirus : Horus E6 6b was the outcome . |
| 26 | The Transport Act 1962 broke up the British Transport Commission established under the Transport Act 1947 . |
| 27 | Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface . |
| 28 | Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal . |
| 29 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 30 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |