Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people of the district rose up in arms and reinstated the abbot , but their triumph was short-lived . |
| 2 | Blackburn cracked under the pressure , as Kerslake and Jones lined up for shots and David Mitchell cleaned up . |
| 3 | The lighting was subtle : concealed behind pelmets , inset into the ceiling , bounced up from uplights on the floor , flickering from candles . |
| 4 | The lower levels of these vast ‘ graveyards ’ built up into beds of limestone and colossal shifts in the earth 's structure meant that much of this was raised above sea level . |
| 5 | It would not , frankly , be totally surprising if — somewhere between Strasbourg this weekend and an EMU vesting date in the middle nineties — the tide of history began to dissolve the fabric of a Community built up over decades . |
| 6 | It has begun to erode the banks which it built up over millennia . |
| 7 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 8 | The concept of charity is elusive , moving , embodied in a corpus of decided cases built up over centuries . |
| 9 | If exchange relationships were based totally on unscrupulous self-interested behaviour , the resulting distrust and the cost of legal action to enforce contracts would render market coordination much less efficient than it is in the presence of trust built up through networks and embedded social expectations that contracts will be honoured . |
| 10 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 11 | If there was a big bank at the back of the house they would have a hole just dug out and er built up with flagstones |
| 12 | Not really a march , not even a brisk tramp , but a shuffling movement forward towards the opened gate : Holly saw the high wooden fence of vertical overlapping boards and above it the rise of steep angled roofs and in the corners were watch-towers built up on stilts with the platform reached by open ladder . |
| 13 | Then they came upon a clearing where there was a hut , made of lap-boarding with a verandah , and built up on bricks . |
| 14 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 15 | But resentment built up among workers . |
| 16 | Coasts built up by plants and animals . |
| 17 | It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers . |
| 18 | This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart . |
| 19 | Understanding of the dream built up in layers , over a long period of time . |
| 20 | Actually it would be more accurate to call it a tutor ‘ hut ’ since our class is based in one of those ‘ temporary ’ classrooms that sprouted up around schools all over the country about twenty years ago . |
| 21 | predisposing the Chinese to think of blood as circulating and of the earth as having condensed out of a more fluid state ( hence the fossil sea shells found up in mountains ) . |
| 22 | Brownstones cosied up to slums , police cars were armoured , and everything was for sale . |
| 23 | First , we pass a couple of wooden family motels , complete with front porch parked up with juggernauts . |
| 24 | ‘ A week after the pact , Stow and Melrose filled up with soldiers . |
| 25 | They 're great big hollow bits of metal filled up with noises and they let the noises out on Sunday mornings after breakfast . |
| 26 | Gaps filled up with fronds ; and little shoots |
| 27 | Would they be willing to lose a little as well as win a little as the days added up to years ? |
| 28 | Whether this added up in terms of cost per job was another matter . |
| 29 | She woke up on cobblestones , surrounded by a rich fog . |
| 30 | BE safe , not sorry , was the message from fire chiefs today as they and their crews geared up for fireworks night on Merseyside . |