Example sentences of "[vb past] up [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital . |
| 2 | With with dredged up pieces of rocks bigger than that erm machine , bigger than yes , that one yeah . |
| 3 | But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ? |
| 4 | The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked . |
| 5 | These successive submarine eruptions built up layers of material which eventually emerged above the ocean 's surface as a small island , and coral reefs formed around its edge . |
| 6 | Museums like the Science Museum now built up collections of enormous value to the historian of science , for the provenance of the pieces is known , and we can only judge past science when we know what could be done with the tools available . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's only the resin from the flower and dried up leaves of a very beautiful plant . ’ |
| 9 | When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’ |
| 10 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 11 | This ‘ impact ’ has from the earliest days of film theory opened up questions of ideology , of desire and fantasy , and of representation . |
| 12 | The projected match , therefore , opened up vistas of great political opportunity , and perhaps even greater danger . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |
| 15 | Perhaps , with its powerful jaws , it also routinely crunched up bones of dead carcasses to get at the marrow , a scavenger-cum-predator like today 's lion or hyaena . |
| 16 | Well we ripped up bits of it and re refurbished it . |
| 17 | Waggons threw up clouds of dust on the road . |
| 18 | The following evening , after a slogging nine-hour march over volcanic hills that threw up waves of heat , making me irritable and all of us tired and thirsty , we toiled up yet another rise and suddenly saw Lake Hertale below us . |
| 19 | When they did n't get the answers they wanted , they made up theories of their own . |
| 20 | At the time , the television networks served up images of Gap-wearing middle-managers having a day out . |
| 21 | THE IRA yesterday renewed its efforts to shift the blame for the weekend 's bomb atrocity at Warrington , as the police followed up lines of inquiry from 300 calls to a special hotline . |
| 22 | He pulled a sheet from one of the beds , spread it on the floor , opened up wardrobes and drawers , scooped up armfuls of clothes — there was no time to make any kind of selection and even if there had been he would have been unable to pick and choose , they were all women 's clothing — dumped them on the sheet , tied up the four corners , lugged the bundle up the companionway and handed it over to Riley . |
| 23 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 24 | Boiling water hissed and heaved within dilapidated walls ; whence , also , the glare and roar of flames came issuing forth ; and mounds of ashes blocked up rights of way , and wholly changed the law and custom of the neighbourhood . |
| 25 | ‘ We went into this basement and smashed up loads of glasses , tables , chairs — anything that was in the room — and recorded it , ’ whispers bearded , bass-playing vocalist Neil . |
| 26 | Slowly , so slowly , he brought up handfuls of the bright tresses , and they slid like silk through his fingers . |
| 27 | SCHOOL pupils cleaned up parts of Middlesbrough this week . |
| 28 | We took up cases of sexual harassment as well , although it was difficult . |
| 29 | It was still raining , great drops spurted up whirlpools of dust , but the buildings cut off the sand and made it seem lighter . |
| 30 | We have not won any Oscars , but the majority of our recommendations notched up gains of between 20% and 60% . |