Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 2 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 3 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 4 | We also hope to have started up the ‘ community club ’ by the time of the JFIT conference . |
| 5 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 6 | Both derive from a deep sense of grievance and resentment against those Western powers led by the United States which are seen to have carved up the world for their own convenience . |
| 7 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
| 8 | The cash will be used to help set up a family action centre on the estate and give young people the opportunity to improve their future . |
| 9 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 10 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 11 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 12 | POSH gifts group Aspreys is thought to have lined up a late Christmas present for itself . |
| 13 | ‘ You know very well that a lady can not accept pecuniary assistance from a gentleman without being thought to have taken up a carte blanche . ’ |
| 14 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 15 | This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction . |
| 16 | By the following morning 's exercises — discussion of how to set about winning a Labour seat when the other candidate wo n't share a public platform with you , a mock television interview and a debate , several of the candidates who appeared strongest — including a chairman of the party 's Bow Group — seem to have given up the fight . |
| 17 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 18 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |
| 19 | Paradoxically the threat to their survival posed by reorganization appears to have gingered up the interested members of the dying Kensington , Chelsea and Westminster area authority . |
| 20 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 21 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 22 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 23 | seems to have come up a bit . |
| 24 | Woodland , a pond and a meadow form the basis of the haven on land given by landlord Helical Bar after the company was asked to help set up a nature park . |
| 25 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |
| 26 | Makeshift Australian opener Mark Waugh , a scorer of two half centuries in the series , appeared to have set up a winning total when he hit 108 . |
| 27 | ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . ) |
| 28 | The war just ended had shown up the divisions between the pro-French and the pro-English factions within Bordeaux . |
| 29 | Christie 's had pointed up the stylistic similarity of the putti to those found in some of Rysbrack 's , tomb sculpture . |
| 30 | A wine bar called Fox 's had opened up a short walk away in Church Street , causing such amazement that the Observer printed an article about it . |