Example sentences of "[vb past] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few months many places drew up loyal addresses to the Queen , defending the Church and monarchy against those they styled republicans and schismatics , and condemning " the new Revived Doctrine of Resistance and other Republican Tenetts that gave rise to the unnatural Rebellion in 41 " . |
| 2 | A campaign of banquets and public meetings was mounted to demand reform , a zemstvo congress drew up specific proposals for constitutional change , and a series of politically-orientated professional unions was formed . |
| 3 | We drew up short term goals but Mrs Allen was not particularly interested in these — her main concern was the long-term aim of having a healed leg wound . |
| 4 | Heading up the operation , Cisco has brought in Takatoshi Matsumoto as general manager , who previously headed up similar startups Nihon Sun Microsystems K.K. and System Software Associates K.K. The Japanese office will be responsible for supporting sales and maintenance services for its Japanese distributor Net One Systems Co and OEM partner NEC Corp . |
| 5 | Inside Sutton dredged up personal details , such as Murdoch insisting the fringes of his Indian carpets be combed into regimented lines every morning and that there must be no marks left behind by the wheels of the Hoover . |
| 6 | In a perverse way , the new utopia dredged up ancient ways of doing things which capitalism a few decades earlier had threatened to abolish . |
| 7 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 8 | Mr Berry built up Blue Arrow from the small staff recruitment and travel operation he acquired in June 1982 into the world 's largest employment services group in September 1987 when it took over US company Manpower . |
| 9 | Unhindered by the country 's lax competition rules , they built up complex webs of cross-shareholdings across an astonishing array of businesses . |
| 10 | First , to show something was amiss , it has to show there was an undisclosed agreement between two or more investors who built up separate stakes and then pooled resources . |
| 11 | Like Lord Byron [ q.v. ] , who suffered a similar deprivation and whom he would grow to resemble in other ways , Douglas hero-worshipped the absent captain , at twelve beginning an autobiographical essay : ‘ As a child he was a militarist , and like many of his warlike elders , built up heroic opinions upon little information — some scrappy war stories of his father . ’ |
| 12 | William Lambarde loved Halling and during his time here he built up good relations . |
| 13 | As surgeon , explorer , surveyor and Chief Factor , Rae built up invaluable experience and knowledge of the Arctic environment and its peoples . |
| 14 | Withdrawal would not undermine the military position of the Far Eastern Command unless the Soviet Union built up military strength in south Korea sufficient to implement an attack on Japan . |
| 15 | ( The United States built up huge rupee balances which it eventually wrote off . ) |
| 16 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 17 | He won the award for the regular habitat improvements made on his 1,680 acre property , where he and his keeper alan Smith four years ago gave up rearing pheasants , and built up wild birds , both pheasants and partridges , which have gone from strength to strength . |
| 18 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in many schools enhanced staffing stirred up traditional structures and assumptions to produce a more open and reflective professional climate . |
| 20 | The Bruces , whose currying of favour with Edward had resulted in the restoration of their estates , stirred up minor troubles but seemed glad to yield for the time being to their benefactors and express disapproval of Wallace 's wild conduct . |
| 21 | The Doctor stirred up numerous feelings in the poet . |
| 22 | Birch 's work on where jobs were being generated in the US economy stirred up considerable interest around the time of the 1979 election in Britain when Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government first came to power . |
| 23 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 24 | I woke up late afternoon sometime with a funny taste in my mouth . |
| 25 | The 21-year-old Ulster girl is making her international debut in this tournament and in her first singles match she came up English star Joanne Morley , losing 3 and 2 in a game which saw eight birdies , five from Morley and three from McCool . |
| 26 | From Ggantija we ambled down to Ramla Bay and then climbed up old terraces . |
| 27 | But he also noted that Minton 's determination to effect a balance between subject matter and pictorial construction , between heart and head , opened up wide possibilities . |
| 28 | After the voluntary enslavement of the Reich it was the failure of the Danzigers that opened up Eastern Europe to the murderous policies of the Nazis . |
| 29 | For Bakhtin , the radical force of the novelistic was grounded precisely in its capacity to put into play a multiplicity of languages , and parody opened up official discourse to travesty and irreverence : |
| 30 | Such theories also opened up other fields in which to search for inspiration . |