Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 2 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 3 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 4 | Stunned police hunting the maniacs who rigged up the deadly device said the 13-year-old should have been killed instantly . |
| 5 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 6 | On his way up the paved path between walls of rose bushes he picked up a piece of old iron pipe with his gloved hand . |
| 7 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 8 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 9 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 10 | The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups . |
| 11 | Many of the elements which made up the relocation package applied equally to eligible staff moving from Kent and north London , for example , the payment of removal expenses , disturbance allowance and house expenses . |
| 12 | It was almost concealed by the small columns which held up the campanile roof , merely a shinier darkness in the dark . |
| 13 | In the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 206 the two transactions which threw up the profit , namely the purchase and resale of the certificates of deposit , both took place outside Hong Kong and this Board held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong , notwithstanding the fact that all the instructions to buy and sell originated in Hong Kong and that there was no independent branch office interposed between the head office in Hong Kong and the following transactions . |
| 14 | The assembly instructions were all written to US specification which provided an interesting conversion problem for the youngsters who took up the challenge . |
| 15 | But there were two separate companies who set up the the both promotions . |
| 16 | The Japanese interned those who surrendered without a struggle and killed all those French elements who put up a resistance . |
| 17 | So when the Wigan colliers threatened in 1792 to throw down the engines , they were seeking both to pressure the mine owner and to prevent him from reworking the pit with " blackleg " labour , also the likely object of Cornish miners who pulled up the ladders in a dispute of 1795 . |
| 18 | After whaling died out , there was cod fishing and , in the eighteenth century especially , piracy , when the Atlantic corsairs of Bayonne and Saint-Jean made mighty profits for the local burghers who put up the money to fit them out . |
| 19 | In the Cornish mines the tutworkers who opened up the ground usually worked eight-hour shifts , with three shifts over twenty-four hours known by the mid eighteenth century . |
| 20 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 21 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 22 | Though delighting to read in Blackwood 's of the exploits of imperial heroes , the educated British public showed little personal inclination for service in the assorted white men 's graves which made up the tropical dependencies . |
| 23 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 24 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 25 | Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city . |
| 26 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 27 | Showing that their displays are appropriate for all types of buildings they picked up the third prize for their display at the Marriott Hotel also in Dyce . |
| 28 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 29 | ‘ To answer both questions I dreamed up the character of a man who is 764 years old ; who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance . |
| 30 | A little later we saw another cow and then through my glasses I picked up a bull lying down in the distance . |