Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 3 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 9 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 10 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We 've a big mechanical saw up the end there . |
| 13 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 14 | To alleviate hardship when a bank becomes insolvent the Banking Act 1979 set up the Deposit Protection Fund . |
| 15 | Mrs Bowden 's brother is Nigel Watts , who in 1984 took up the campaign against the insurance company , which had lain dormant since 1978 . |
| 16 | Half of these gave up the drug ( British Medical Journal . |
| 17 | On the Cobbler 's South Peak , Gary Latter ventured up the slab directly above the start of Osirus : Horus E6 6b was the outcome . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal . |
| 20 | What changes in the 1970s set up the forces , working through the world market and multinational corporation networks , to generate a new international division of labour ? |
| 21 | But what would happen if the companies concerned bought up the rivers and lakes ? |
| 22 | She checked herself so as not to rush and then advanced over-slowly , first took up the bottle of rum , poured a glass , then picked up a guinea , seemed , he thought ( and smiled ) to test it , pocketed it , brought him the rum . |
| 23 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 24 | It was Damian , the Dysons ' younger son , who first brought up the subject of marriage . |
| 25 | While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition . |
| 26 | Since 1955 , when he was 12 years old and first picked up the bag , Dave has had plenty of chance to come up against those two impostors . |
| 27 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 28 | Highbury boss Graham said afterwards : ‘ He first picked up the injury against Nottingham Forest , then aggravated it with England and he 's aggravated it again . |
| 29 | They included ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ and ‘ Mallard ’ , which in 193 8 set up the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126 m.p.h. , and which can now be seen at York ( q.v . ) . |
| 30 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |