Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major longitudinal study followed up residents in 175 homes for elderly people and found no evidence of continuing upward trends in overall levels of dependency ( Booth et al . , |
| 2 | My hon. Friend conjured up images of people coming out of taxis and meeting friends . |
| 3 | In the French territories , the Free French set up transmitters in both Douala and Brazzaville to counter the pro-Vichy broadcasts emanating from Dakar . |
| 4 | Their cottage at Spittalburn , midway between Forfar and Dundee , stands squarely in the path of a new section of dual carriageway and although the Scottish Office held up work on the section for a year , it was decided further delays could cost more than £100,000 a week . |
| 5 | Pout , whiting , dabs and odd dogfish made up bags . |
| 6 | But such pretentious billing set up Cuisine 2000 for instant mockery whenever problems arose — as surely they did . |
| 7 | Conway , whose delicate chip set up Fox 's try , landed a splendid goal to make it 6-6 at half-time . |
| 8 | After a previous band split up Dermot and a few mates recorded a track for a US compilation CD , called themselves Blink and thought no more about it . |
| 9 | A little man turned up Friday afternoon , after they got home you know how we 're very susceptible to these market research types ? |
| 10 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 11 | Cold weather pushed up energy prices by 13.6 per cent and fuel oil prices rose by 25.3 per cent , the largest rise since the oil crisis of 1974 . |
| 12 | A broad grin lit up Rory 's features . |
| 13 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 14 | Remember those heady days not so long ago when 800 journalists packed into the ballroom at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to see King and Tyson before the disgraced champion beat up Razor Ruddock for the second time ? |
| 15 | AN ELDERLY couple gave up £1,000 worth of golden wedding presents to help the blind . |
| 16 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
| 17 | An ugly purple flush rose up Miss Jarman 's already heated face as she slowly realized how he had manipulated her questioning . |
| 18 | APR ) for 90 p.c. of the value of the property up to £200,000 with a one-month interest set up fee and six-month early redemption penalty . |
| 19 | The small wind kicked up dust devils in the street . |
| 20 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 21 | ‘ We read ’ , he read , ‘ in Richard Milward 's unreliable , tendentious and often plainly wrong book Early and Mediaeval Wimbledon that ‘ in 878 a Danish army took up winter quarters just across the river at Fulham . |
| 22 | In sum , accelerating accumulation pushed up employment quite rapidly , but not as fast as the stock of capital rose , since mechanization proceeded apace ( figure 8.8 ) . |
| 23 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 24 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |
| 25 | Tanjug said demonstrators outside the Intercontinental Hotel tore up pictures of President Ceausescu and sang an old nationalist song , Wake up Romania . |
| 26 | One Latin American country drew up guidelines which specified that torturers must be able to control themselves ; must go as far as is necessary and no further ; and must have goals that are both important and impersonal . |
| 27 | The big predator snapped up David 's trout bait within seconds of it hitting the water under an over hanging willow tree . |
| 28 | The Catholic Church screwed up sex by making it too important whereas it should just be a natural , integrated part of everyday life . |
| 29 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 30 | As each new number came up Bob looked at him and asked , ‘ This one ? ’ |