Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An advance guard of hundreds of men , with bulldozers , mechanical shovels , tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands , daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills . |
| 2 | Last week their friends and relatives staged a demonstration alleging that police covered up evidence that would have supported that claim . |
| 3 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 4 | In Europe , it used to be believed that devils took up residence inside pigs by entering through a tiny hole in the forefoot . |
| 5 | In every way possible preachers and troubadours stirred up enthusiasm . |
| 6 | The royal household cost £56,000 in 1550/51 , compared with only £25,000 in 1538 /39 ; pensions and annuities ate up £20,000 ; and permanent garrisons , the navy , and the ordnance absorbed £80,000 . |
| 7 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 8 | Since trustbusters broke up America 's Bell system in 1983 , AT&T 's biggest switch-customers have been the seven regional ‘ Baby Bells ’ born of the break-up . |
| 9 | As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place . |
| 10 | When economists took up positions in government during the war , the theory goes , they acted as missionaries , converting politicians and civil servants alike to Keynesianism . |
| 11 | When doctors gave up hope of any recovery , they sent him home to be with Altovise when he died . |