Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 2 | I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong … |
| 3 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 4 | It is a line which has stirred up against Macedo the same emnities which led to Chico Mendes 's murder . |
| 5 | I put up for sale the service areas on new long leases , retaining some controls only to ensure that the areas were safe stopping places for motorway travellers . |
| 6 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 7 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 8 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 9 | When in 1936 the first Butlins camp opened up at Skegness the £500 spent on a half-page Daily Express advert in the early spring looked like money well spent . |
| 10 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 11 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 12 | In the period leading up to congress the campaign for political representation gathered momentum . |
| 13 | He emphasized that the laws opened up to Jews the possibility of their separate existence within Germany in all spheres of life , and renewed the command forbidding all ‘ individual actions ’ against Jews . |
| 14 | it like sends the thing down the old wiring and flicks the boiler off the same as with the heating once it gets up to temperature the boiler will cut off . |
| 15 | For the moment , she would have to put up with things the way they were . |
| 16 | This opens up for debate the question of what can be done , at each level of the system , to fix some problem . |
| 17 | They earn their bread reckoning up for investors the risk of default . |
| 18 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
| 19 | He lifted Leonora into the passenger-seat then leapt up to back the vehicle out into the narrow street , waving his thanks as a weather-beaten old man slammed the garage door shut with a wide smile before waving them on their way . |
| 20 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 21 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 22 | The agreement ( i ) conferred land rights on ethnic Indians living in the eastern Amazonian department of Beni , covering the Isiboro Sécure el Iviato National Park and 170,000 hectares of the central forest of Chimanes ; ( ii ) established that a multiparty commission would be set up , composed of government and indigenous Indian representatives and others from " respectable institutions " , to draft a new Law for Indigenous Indians of the East and Amazonia ; ( iii ) established that timber merchants in the central Chimanes forest had to end their operations by Oct. 31 , 1990 , when contracts to cut timber would not be renewed ; and ( iv ) made provision for a further multiparty commission to be set up to police the agreement . |
| 23 | The Seehandlung organisation , set up by Frederick the Great in 1772 to promote trade along the Prussian reaches of the Vistula , was expanded and reorganised to seek outlets for Prussian goods in Silesia , India , the West Indies , South America , China and the Balkans . |
| 24 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
| 25 | THE Limit has teamed up with chart-toppers The Shamen to launch a truly wicked competition . |
| 26 | She opened her lips under the caress of his , found her hands reaching up to Braille the rock sculpture of his cheekbones . |
| 27 | When he made The Dirty Dozen in 1967 , he failed to turn up to film the final scene , when he and Charles Bronson drive a huge weapons carrier across a bridge . |
| 28 | Erm what we were doing was filling in these these postcards asking MPs to turn up on February the fourth to support the energy conservation bill when it has its er second reading in Parliament . |
| 29 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 30 | Now , after the acclaimed New Jack City , Ricochet is the second step in Ice-T 's master plan to unceremoniously usurp Eddie Murphy as black America 's biggest film star and clean up in Hollywood the way he 's cleaned up in rap : staying hip with his street following and making millions from the masses at the same time . |