Example sentences of "[verb] up after the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I rushed her over to see him as soon as I could but he was still drugged up after the operation . ’
2 Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo .
3 Although advertising is picking up after the recession , most in the industry only expect fairly modest growth .
4 When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing .
5 Early this morning , in the darkness of his bedroom , waking up after the nightmare , he had almost given way to panic .
6 When the balance sheet was finally totted up after the war , it was estimated that 1O , OOO Frenchmen alone had laid down their lives on this one small corner of France .
7 The local trade unionists were quick to give their verdict on the SDLP and the document drawn up after the meeting stated :
8 National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy .
9 We liked the motor camp at Marahau so much that we stayed two nights , giving us a chance to wash and clean up after the Abel Tasman .
10 Mr Mallory and Patrick habitually washed up after the Sunday dinner , and with a glowing sense of virtue Mark offered to help them .
11 A Tokyo professor who studied secret papers , claimed the horror was hushed up after the war .
12 They are often sited in very desirable locations : mental hospitals , in particular , such as the former county asylums which sprung up after the Lunacy Act of 1847 , are located on the outskirts of towns , in landscaped grounds thoughtfully planned for the patients ' well-being .
13 He found Franks in his laboratory , scrubbing up after the autopsy .
14 Fletcher also indicated that England 's batting line-up might be shaken up after the humiliation by India .
15 Oh it folded up after the war .
16 USAID , the World Food Programme , and the UN have funded food donations to the army-controlled model villages set up after the uprising in the highlands in the early 1980s .
17 In 1920 , Moscow recognized the independent governments set up after the defeat of the White forces .
18 A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail .
19 It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity .
20 It was recovered from Leatherslade Farm near Brill where the gang had holed up after the raid … just twenty eight miles from the scene .
21 Things did liven up after the break when Wallace replaced Whelan .
22 The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 .
23 A new pension scheme was to be set up after the sale of a business , and an actuary was to decide the portion of the funds from the old company 's pension scheme to be set aside for the new company 's scheme .
24 The KANU policy review failed to address demands for wide-ranging political reform , although it had been set up after the rioting in July 1990 in the wake of a growing campaign by pro-democracy supporters [ p. 37603 ] .
25 Even where it is possible to clear up after the day 's work , another couple of unpaid hours work is added to the women 's costs and subtracted from those of her employer .
26 Despite the destruction , church services went ahead at the weekend in five churches in Armagh as workmen continued to clear up after the IRA bomb attack on the courthouse .
27 Tell him to join the society which I 'm starting up after the programme .
28 Indeed , having been brought up after the war and having heard of the plight of those poor people , one has never forgotten it in any case .
29 Since the coalition broke up after the defeat of Germany there is no way of knowing how the policy outlined in the full employment promise of May 1944 might have been implemented without the profound changes in the role of the State in peacetime economic life introduced by the post-war Labour government .
30 While the symbols of civilization processed with full panoply of State through the streets of London , out on the eastern marshes the North Sea nudged at the coastal defences which had been hastily shored up after the calamity just four months before .
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