Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Courts at the moment are inclined to ask the police to give up information which is compromising our ability to tackle crime . |
| 32 | In summer , when the white trash Protestants from the rookeries of the Dock Road marched in honour of King Billy , the police put up barricades to stop the Catholic men from charging the procession . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The Act also empowers the police to set up roadblocks to discover whether vehicles contain anyone who has witnessed , committed or is about to commit a serious crime . |
| 35 | The way the police beat up Malcolm McLaren … |
| 36 | It saves the government more than a hundred million pounds by cutting the number of expensive court hearings , and it 's a quick and easy way for the police to clear up crime . |
| 37 | These were the years of the infamous ‘ American Plan ’ , which advocated the use of blacklists , spies , injunctions and propaganda , and the ‘ Mohawk Valley Formula ’ which urged employers to use the police to break up meetings and organise vigilante groups to protect strikebreakers ( Fox Piven and Cloward , 1977:120 ) . |
| 38 | On the Gamily Fast Day in October , the children gave up snacks and donated the money save to a collection which was brought up at the offertory at a special mass in school . |
| 39 | It was not until the famous Hertfordshire Blizzard of 1915 , when Shaw went out and worked with the menfolk sawing up trees that lay blocking the roads , and the Zeppelin Raid the following year ( which he incorporated into his play Heartbreak House ) , when he offered his cellar as a shelter , that the villagers grew friendly with him . |
| 40 | Luib studied it as the others set up camp . |
| 41 | ‘ When the brewers put up beer prices last July we decided to peg our prices . |
| 42 | The court had been told that the boys made up stories after the accused had thrown them out of his home for stealing cigarettes . |
| 43 | The boys started up dumper trucks , a J C B and a caterpillar tractor at the site , and in just one hour they had caused nearly £50,000 worth of damage . |
| 44 | A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants . |
| 45 | The price of property in the village had risen as people from the towns bought up cottages as second homes and young couples could no longer afford them . |
| 46 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 47 | The reality is that the present intelligent and moderate leaderships of the unions pay up money out of a mixture of sentiment , good will and habit . |
| 48 | The shares moved up 2p to 132p yesterday . |
| 49 | The shares closed up 9p at 469p . |