Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 2 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
| 3 | artwork or pasted up material that is ready for reproduction . |
| 4 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |
| 5 | Was there any way he could have traced her call or picked up background noise and was now rushing downtown in a wild attempt to snatch the film from her ? |
| 6 | In Warmia and Mazuria , two of the districts that made up East Prussia , the Poles suffered serious reverses , gaining only 3 of the 28 disputed villages . |
| 7 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 8 | In addition , the balance sheet formats prescribed by companies legislation require that called up share capital is stated separately from liabilities . |
| 9 | The Maltese government has repeatedly denied allegations that the suitcase bomb that blew up flight 103 originated in Malta , travelling on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt and being transferred to the Pan Am flight . |
| 10 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 11 | by no means all of the large reptiles that are found in the Mesozoic rocks are dinosaurs — the reptile groups that took up life in the sea or the air were only distantly related . |
| 12 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 13 | But in a reply that summed up Ally McLeod 's capacity for humorous catastrophe the manager responded by saying , ‘ I told him several of our players smoke and it would be untruthful to back an anti-smoking campaign . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
| 15 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 16 | Third , a federal provision gives tax credits to firms that set up manufacturing operations in US possessions , most notably Puerto Rico . |
| 17 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 18 | As the cricket world reeled at yesterday 's shock news that Gooch 's 16-year marriage to wife Brenda has broken up , Test and county chiefs expressed their amazement — and drew up contingency plans . |
| 19 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 20 | So you 're going to be looking at things like additional insurability option , waiver of premium , index linking and paid up option . |
| 21 | His vision broke frontiers and opened up travel to ordinary people . |
| 22 | The judicial decision ended a monopoly and opened up competition not only in the provision of telecommunications services but also new developments in information technologies . |
| 23 | Nearby in Coire an Lochain , Brian Davison and I started up Daddy Longlegs and finished up Ventricle for a very hard route called Big Daddy ( VI ) . |
| 24 | I gave her the number and hung up feeling baulked of my escape , almost as if I 'd expected that the thing could be done now , tonight . |
| 25 | The key was being able to offer a two-coat process , instead of the conventional primer-undercoat-topcoat approach , which saved time and speeded up production . |
| 26 | And not to out done , the panda got out his own dictionary and looked up panda , one that eats , shoots then leaves ! |
| 27 | All his talents were called on on such a day — his powers of calculation , of decision-making , of patience , of amiability , of firmness and above all of steering his excellently stocked , freshly painted and cleaned up vessel of an inn through the increasingly unpredictable currents of the day . |
| 28 | The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol . |
| 29 | I just went shoppin' , that 's all ; I took an 'ansom cab at the Elephant and Castle to save wear and tear on me ankle , and went up West in it . |
| 30 | If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West . |