Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The bitter sarcasm welled up unbidden . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 5 | As the bomber hung up Eileen had already reached for another phone to warn the police . |
| 6 | 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 . , |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His horse put up waterfowl and once disturbed a whole field of rabbits that scampered in panic towards the hedgerows . |
| 11 | The small wind kicked up dust devils in the street . |
| 12 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 13 | She pressed the accelerator and the sports car picked up speed . |
| 14 | Monaco shepherd Francis Clary , 45 , claims he was beaten up after his car held up Ducruet 's white Renault on the road outside Monaco , two years ago . |
| 15 | With the crowd being the most volatile in the Caribbean — rioting held up play for 25 minutes during the Test against India in 1989 -there might be some trouble but only if the West Indies are faring badly , rather than as a result of any anti-South African sentiment . |
| 16 | Instead , the Armada sailed up channel and the watchers at Rame , including Carew , could view the first engagement of battle early that Sunday morning off Plymouth , with the first galleon exploding . |
| 17 | Why has she come here for goodness sake Ar Art barked mentally choosing mushed up mushroom omelette and a roll of butter . |
| 18 | Pout , whiting , dabs and odd dogfish made up bags . |
| 19 | The mob smashed up Ms Wilson 's first-floor home before leaving , after what police described as a ‘ particularly brutal ’ murder . |
| 20 | Flat expanses of sand conjured up images of the savannah it had once been : giraffes picking leaves from high branches , an antelope grazing , and young zebras running in circles while their mothers eye a drowsy lion in the long grass . |
| 21 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
| 22 | From June onward warming through the ice set up circulation currents which gradually raised temperatures to a uniform 4°C throughout the water column ( Rigler , 1974 ) . |
| 23 | In sum , accelerating accumulation pushed up employment quite rapidly , but not as fast as the stock of capital rose , since mechanization proceeded apace ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 24 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 25 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 26 | Drifts of rain came up Loch Maree as I plowtered wet and chilled along the lochside to find the spot for JTR 's ‘ Loch Maree ’ . |
| 27 | Movies in the new albums , appropriately enough , are present only as jokes , in ‘ 57 Channels ( And Nothin' On ) ’ or ‘ Real Man ’ : ‘ Sound came up lights went down/Rambo he was blowin' 'em down . ’ |
| 28 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 29 | For them , the change in leadership and the promise of reform opened up opportunities denied to the Red Guard generation and they did not want to jeopardise them by becoming too involved in a politically orientated movement . |
| 30 | Sponsored by UNESCO , the meeting followed up initiatives that sprang from the Third Consultation of Ministers of Culture of Latin America/Caribbean in September last year . |