Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 results of serum tests and ultrasonography before 28 weeks ' gestation together made up 38% of the indications leading to a prenatal karyotypic confirmation of fetal trisomy 21 . |
| 2 | LG himself apparently drummed up support for his daughter by suggesting he would help her main rival , Ellis W. Roberts , a local barrister , find a seat elsewhere . |
| 3 | Violet and Eddie then went back to their respective boarding schools , paid for by Granny Macleod , which only stepped up Perdita 's paranoia and jealousy . |
| 4 | After planting a flag on the summit and taking photographs in bright sunshine , Ms Stephens — who only took up mountaineering four years ago — lost no time in getting off the peak as the weather closed in . |
| 5 | Colin Who , only took up fotbal this seeson has licked nothin in yuthanasium ( 110$ purr mach ) but sadlee could not adap to this hi standard of footee . |
| 6 | On his head was the horned-moon helm of Saphery and he swiftly took up position between the queen and the Keeper of Secrets . |
| 7 | I hope people at the back can hear , erm , we obviously took up action on the resolution passed last year , in two or three different ways . |
| 8 | I more or less gave up cottaging for a while . |
| 9 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 10 | But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ? |
| 11 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 12 | It was at the beginning of May , some weeks after he first left , that the Zoo finally gave up hope of capturing the escaped golden eagle . |
| 13 | This study has of course raised new problems , and thereby opened up avenues for further investigation . |
| 14 | I once got up Iago in three days when I was in rep . |
| 15 | ‘ The centre 's management supplied us with the display screens , upon which we quickly pinned up posters , photographs and press-cuttings . |
| 16 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 17 | She like woke up Monday morning , she there was four empty vodka bottles . |
| 18 | MANAGERS of Binns in Middlesbrough yesterday covered up mannequins left naked in a shop window during a display change after a passer-by complained . |
| 19 | In the summer , strawberry sellers usually took up position around the Crimean Cannon at the side of the Council House and they had to dispose of all their perishable wares before returning home . |
| 20 | And he still picked up bits of stuff . |
| 21 | AN independent inquiry yesterday backed up allegations that a South African police ‘ death squad ’ had killed anti-apartheid activists . |
| 22 | I nearly got up ad went away out of pity , I found this so unpleasant in a slip of a child . |
| 23 | From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital . |
| 24 | The GFCCG also drew up plans to raise additional funds , estimated at $4,000 million-$5,000 million , for 1991 . |
| 25 | There 's a , I , I nearly booked up tickets to go and see this , but I did n't know if anybody would fancy going to see it with me . |
| 26 | It also threw up confusions . |
| 27 | There were reports of renewed incursions by armed Liberians into Côte d'Ivoire , which also stepped up border patrols after several reported killings in early March . |
| 28 | He also took up fishing , fellwalking and sailing and in 1988 he climbed the Himalayas . |
| 29 | Nigel also took up aerobics at his local sports centre . |
| 30 | In between the nastiness Derby County and Brentford both chalked up victories and will now face each other in the semi-final . |