Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you know to check it and go back and do it differently and it 's the same with this moved up a level now , that you you keep in keep in charge of it . |
| 2 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 3 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 4 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 5 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 6 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 7 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 8 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 9 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 10 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 11 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 12 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 13 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |
| 14 | This set up an Examinations Council , GCE Board and CSE Board in Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | This set up an Audit Commission for local authorities in England and Wales . |
| 16 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |
| 17 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 18 | We 've a big mechanical saw up the end there . |
| 19 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 20 | To alleviate hardship when a bank becomes insolvent the Banking Act 1979 set up the Deposit Protection Fund . |
| 21 | Local government Acts in 1888 and 1894 set up a system of local authorities that was to remain almost unchanged until the 1970s . |
| 22 | Mrs Bowden 's brother is Nigel Watts , who in 1984 took up the campaign against the insurance company , which had lain dormant since 1978 . |
| 23 | Half of these gave up the drug ( British Medical Journal . |
| 24 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 25 | A BOY of three picked up a terrorist car bomb in the street — and innocently took it home to show his mum and grandma . |
| 26 | Presumably when one went in , they all moved up a chair , into the heat of the previous sitter , intimately . |
| 27 | On the Cobbler 's South Peak , Gary Latter ventured up the slab directly above the start of Osirus : Horus E6 6b was the outcome . |
| 28 | We all cheered up a bit after that . |
| 29 | Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface . |
| 30 | Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal . |