Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , these researchers built up a picture of life styles in Chicago at that time , especially those of certain deviant groups such as hoboes and gang-members . |
| 2 | my three wishes sucked up a chimney of flame . |
| 3 | Jess could n't see except when the birds rose up an instant only to fall back , this time with Damocles mounted and digging in his spurs . |
| 4 | Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’ |
| 5 | ASUTRAMES drew up a series of demands in a 27-point petition addressed to the municipal government , The petition included the following Points : |
| 6 | Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 . |
| 7 | A flight of steps led up the mound to the base of the figure . |
| 8 | In 1989 , the United Nations drew up a convention on these rights , signed by 74 countries . |
| 9 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 10 | The question of ratification of treaties with Western nations opened up a gulf between the Bakufu and an imperial court whose nominal supremacy Tokugawa enemies were beginning to realize could be fruitfully exploited to the regime 's disadvantage . |
| 11 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 12 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 13 | The departmental appraisals took up the bulk of the self-evaluation report . |
| 14 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 15 | The Kay brothers took up the design , made further improvements to it , and produced their stones uniformly on Andrew 's machine . |
| 16 | Jacques 's famous Principes summed up an era of flute playing , presenting a retrospective view , in a way comparable to the methods of Corrette ( c. 1734 ) , the first method for the four-piece flute , and that of Devienne ( 1795 ) , the last significant French method for the one-keyed flute . |
| 17 | Liverpool 's fans pumped up the volume before the kick-off in an attempt to unnerve Spartak . |
| 18 | TriStar Pictures snapped up the rights after persuading Julia , 25 , to take the part . |
| 19 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 20 | Frequency of the trains had been increased but the swollen crowds filled up the tunnels and the escalators at the interchanges . |
| 21 | Although reformist communists made up the bulk of members of these groupings , they refused the whip of the local party committee . |
| 22 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 23 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 24 | SEVERAL old and tried tunes opened up the year . |
| 25 | His drive towards restructuring higher education along egalitarian lines opened up the colleges to those from less privileged ‘ proletarian ’ backgrounds and those who showed the correct political disposition . |
| 26 | As the elite Navy Seal commandos stormed up the beach , cameras rolled to catch live prime-time TV back home . |
| 27 | In December , South African commandos blew up the fuel storage depot at the Mozambique end of the oil pipeline to Zimbabwe . |
| 28 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 29 | Throughout the day trained police negotiators kept up a dialogue with Mr Say by telephone and at the door of the bungalow . |
| 30 | Barbarossa sent a mandate requiring Milan to give up her claims , but the Milanese consuls tore up the document , and the imperial ambassador fled an enraged crowd . |