Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stunned police hunting the maniacs who rigged up the deadly device said the 13-year-old should have been killed instantly . |
| 2 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 3 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 4 | The assembly instructions were all written to US specification which provided an interesting conversion problem for the youngsters who took up the challenge . |
| 5 | It was Dr. Joseph Thackeray , the newly appointed physician to the infirmary who took up the burden . |
| 6 | The story which most reminds me of animism ( if anything does ) is that of the angel who stirred up the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:1–15 ) . |
| 7 | But there were two separate companies who set up the the both promotions . |
| 8 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
| 9 | So when the Wigan colliers threatened in 1792 to throw down the engines , they were seeking both to pressure the mine owner and to prevent him from reworking the pit with " blackleg " labour , also the likely object of Cornish miners who pulled up the ladders in a dispute of 1795 . |
| 10 | With the first Dalek one , for example , I let Richard Martin , again a new Director , do a few episodes but under the wings of Christopher who set up the serial and so , kind of , held his hand while he eased himself into the role of Director , which was good experience for him . |
| 11 | After whaling died out , there was cod fishing and , in the eighteenth century especially , piracy , when the Atlantic corsairs of Bayonne and Saint-Jean made mighty profits for the local burghers who put up the money to fit them out . |
| 12 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 13 | A beekeeper himself with 10 hives in the manse garden it was the Dean who dreamed up the idea of a honey service four years ago . |
| 14 | In the Cornish mines the tutworkers who opened up the ground usually worked eight-hour shifts , with three shifts over twenty-four hours known by the mid eighteenth century . |
| 15 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 16 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 17 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |
| 18 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 19 | THE Japanese tycoon who dreamt up the Sony Walkman has been awarded an honorary knighthood . |
| 20 | The monastic chronicler in later Wessex who wrote up the entry classifying the invasion seems to have got his dates wrong ; recent scholars have suggested he might have been a quarter of a century too late . |
| 21 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 22 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 23 | It is a fascinating story of a turnaround , of the value of sectorisation and of the quality of the managers who took up the challenge of ‘ Other Provincial Services , . |
| 24 | He was one of the managers who drew up the articles of impeachment of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 26 | It was Owen who took up the challenge of modernizing the argument from design in a way that would allow it to incorporate the innovative aspects of transcendental anatomy . |
| 27 | As I told the board before their meeting with the Receiver , the blame lies solely with the person who dreamt up the idea , namely Chester Bence . |
| 28 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 29 | Sometimes it appeared that the police and the media were christening subsequent sex beasts as variants of The Fox , while , much more rarely , on other occasions it seemed to be the offender who took up the mantle . |
| 30 | As the woman who dreamed up the slogan ‘ A Dog Is For Life , Not Just For Christmas ’ , she needs to have a high profile for campaigning , while still being able to turn her hand to clearing the odd blocked drain that might occur at the kennels . |