Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 2 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 3 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 4 | When a storm of rare violence blew up the mariners , being superstitious folk , cast lots to determine which of those on board was the cause of the evil , and the short straw , broken domino or queen of spades was drawn by Jonah . |
| 5 | Lewis was almost treeless from quite early times until Lady Matheson planted up the grounds of Lews Castle in Stornoway in the middle of the last century , largely on soil imported from the mainland as ballast . |
| 6 | TriStar Pictures snapped up the rights after persuading Julia , 25 , to take the part . |
| 7 | Brown pulled a goal back for Haverhill after 65 minutes , but –––Norwich sewed up the points when Gill scored their third . |
| 8 | Frequency of the trains had been increased but the swollen crowds filled up the tunnels and the escalators at the interchanges . |
| 9 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 10 | His drive towards restructuring higher education along egalitarian lines opened up the colleges to those from less privileged ‘ proletarian ’ backgrounds and those who showed the correct political disposition . |
| 11 | Using their favoured analogy in which the complexities of a nation-state were reduced to the simplicities of a corner shop balance sheet , the newly appointed boss of the Institute took up the cudgels again in February 1990 . |
| 12 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 13 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Judging the business to be done , Ramlal picked up the papers and went to the door . |
| 16 | Loretta held up the tickets . |
| 17 | Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly . |
| 18 | The questionnaire responses backed up the interviews : Textbooks have moved ahead in importance : worksheets are less popular . |
| 19 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 20 | In the first the computer threw up the names , in the second it allocated the numbers . |
| 21 | Second , it is possible that as the mass of the planet built up the volatiles were captured as gases from the planetary formation medium ( PFM ) by the gravitational field of the ( growing ) planet . |
| 22 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 23 | When the land was elevated , and the climate improved , the arctic plants retreated up the mountainsides in order to remain in an environment similar to that from which they had been derived . |
| 24 | Alain went for the gap , Steve moved over and Alain locked up the brakes flat-out in top . |
| 25 | Redcar MP Marjorie Mowlam served up the trophies after the North-East Junior Tennis Tournament for Hearing Impaired Children . |
| 26 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 27 | Gen Noriega was able to broadcast to the people and organise resistance over the main national radio network , until a special US assault team blew up the transmitters late on Wednesday . |
| 28 | Julia gathered up the others . |
| 29 | But it 's only just over two and a half years since the village Post Office and shop put up the shutters for the last time . |
| 30 | Town put up the barricades and blocked everything . |