Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the council thinks that you have given away or used up savings in order to qualify for , or increase the amount of your benefit they can treat you as still having those savings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | artwork or pasted up material that is ready for reproduction . |
| 6 | The use of role play , incorporating previously discussed difficulties ( i.e. homework assignment session 4 ) in ‘ real ’ or set up situations provides an opportunity for testing these skills . |
| 7 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |
| 8 | exchange rate policy when there exist indivisibilities or set up costs of switching between different industries in the presence of a non-permanent supply of North Sea Oil . |
| 9 | These more skilful practitioners are sometimes recruited by rival workshops , or set up workshops of their own , and there is generally a more systematic and business like approach to making and selling rugs . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang . |
| 12 | This year , sales here increased 133% to £5.6m , and made up 45% of all new licence sales . |
| 13 | They left the Tower and rode up Eastcheap , turning into Gracechurch , past the Cornmarket where St Peter on Cornhill stood , and into Cheapside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 16 | It measured 1270mm wide , so we used a 914mm wide door and built up sides using 15mm laminated chipboard |
| 17 | A limited marine transgression in the Roman period caused the formation of salt marsh in the northern part of the Fens , while the Fen rivers aggraded their courses and built up levees of silt . |
| 18 | Led by a man named William Shorter , the gang had begun as a small group of poachers , their nickname derived from their dark clothing and blacked up faces for nocturnal raids in the forest . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | NATO ministers promised humanitarian aid , and drew up guidelines for recognising the independence of the former Soviet republics . |
| 21 | Mr Hunte conferred subsequently with other ICC officials , principally Sir Colin Cowdrey , the chairman , and drew up penalties which were widely considered as being too mild . |
| 22 | Greek bidders descended on the sale yesterday and drove up prices . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | SCOTTISH striker Graham Harvey promised Linfield a debut goal — and came up trumps with a 36-minute hat-trick in the 5–2 win over Larne that keeps the Blues a point clear at the top of the table . |
| 25 | It 's only the resin from the flower and dried up leaves of a very beautiful plant . ’ |
| 26 | I recalled north India seen from 36,000 feet , laid out like a Liberty print in various shades of silt : Art Nouveauish abstractions of dark arbitrary patches and wriggling river lines in wide sandy beds , whiplash meanders and ox-bows and dried up curves where rivers once flowed — a palimpsest of an earlier topography counterpointed by the rare human impositions of road and railway in thin straight lines . |
| 27 | ‘ The moment he finished with Etty , the big beast ran over and dug up Admiral King-Fisher 's nest . |
| 28 | I 've chased ducks , and dug up homes , and trampled nests , and caused commotion wherever I went . ’ |
| 29 | So you 're going to be looking at things like additional insurability option , waiver of premium , index linking and paid up option . |
| 30 | CAR thieves wrecked two fences and ripped up lawns when they sped through a quiet residential estate yesterday . |