Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 2 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 3 | In the weeks following the dinner Lutyens swiftly drew up an elaborate set of plans . |
| 4 | Coleraine suddenly stepped up a gear in the last 20 minutes of normal time , a gear no-one , least of all Ards , believed they had . |
| 5 | The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties . |
| 6 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 7 | As was only to be expected , the Tory press eagerly took up the cry . |
| 8 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 9 | Maxim put the camera down picked up a poker from the hearth and started for the stairway . |
| 10 | He took 2–38 in 10 overs , and eagerly snapped up a chance offered by Graham Gooch off Peter Martin . |
| 11 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 12 | But then , at about 9pm , it suddenly set up a fortissimo peeping , and from that moment never looked back . |
| 13 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 14 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 16 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 17 | So I said , ‘ Let's knock up a quick vocal and let's knock up Keith 's guitar , ’ and he just banged up a solo very quickly and it was great . ’ |
| 18 | Pamella spent four days under siege while the pack sat outside and merrily divvied up the 24-hour doorstep into shifts . |
| 19 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 20 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 21 | Whereas The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower had allowed Minton to rework , in lighter and more decorative form , imagery coined in his landscape drawings of the mid-1940s , Time Was Away opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 22 | When Wattana effortlessly opened up a 2-0 advantage , Parrott looked in trouble again . |
| 23 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 24 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 25 | Warriors including Ollokot meanwhile scampered up the slope and mounted a defensive fire into the soldiers ' flanks from improvised rifle-pits . |
| 26 | Take away served up a ‘ pickled ’ cockroach |
| 27 | Erm tt I think , oh dear , I saw an advert in the paper I think to , to take out a savings plan or something and I just signed up a , a form and back it came . |
| 28 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
| 29 | He 's here , he is here , he just walked up the |
| 30 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |