Example sentences of "[noun pl] who [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRANSPORT ‘ Did you know that lorry drivers who pick up hitch-hikers have 73 per cent fewer accidents than those who do n't ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It deals with kids who take up causes and get drawn into violent activities as a result . |
| 3 | Culturally , the most militant gangs who beat up immigrants in the name of the nation belong to the international youth culture and reflect its modes and fashions , jeans , punk-rock , junk food and all . |
| 4 | He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ? |
| 5 | On 30 October , NBC News reported : ‘ Officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration told NBC News today they are conducting an inquiry of a top secret undercover heroin operation in the Middle East to find out whether the operation was used as cover by the terrorists who blew up Pan Am 103 almost two years ago . ’ |
| 6 | That the aggregate wealth of society is as high as it can be is of no moral value in itself ; what counts is the effect of increases in total wealth on the welfare of the individuals who make up society . |
| 7 | Before the transfer , the shortfall was met by charities or relatives who topped up income support payments from their own pockets . |
| 8 | Small boats came out to the liner , some bearing vendors of coconuts and bananas , others containing friends and relatives who shouted up names to the rail . |
| 9 | Ernst & Young has offered to pay compensation to Sound Diffusion investors who took up shares in a rights issue seven months before the electrical equipment company collapsed . |
| 10 | Then it was Irons who set up Aldridge for the third with a superb pass form inside his own half . |
| 11 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 12 | Among the other famous names who set up hostels for the Kindertransporte was Harry Jacobs , the head of Times Furnishing . |
| 13 | Similarly , Mosca develops the concept of a political class , made up of organised minorities who occupy an intermediary position between the ruling class and the majority , which is clearly a precursor both of the functional elites of Keller and Aron and of the pluralistic elites who make up Dahl 's polyarchy . |
| 14 | Far more nauseating are those pop stars who dish up re-mixes of their old hits . |
| 15 | In our experience it is often grandparents or other family members who bring up children when their HIV infected parents have died or are unable to cope : account needs to be taken of the pressure exerted within extended families in such cases . |
| 16 | There are other mothers who bring up boys in wartime without their being brutalised . |
| 17 | Since then her work with the band has taken her on a Scottish tour which included the Edinburgh Folk Festival , and she also performs with the four other ladies who make up Belfast 's first close-harmony vocal group ‘ Cuigear Ban ’ . |
| 18 | The eight players who made up America 's team ranged in age from Cathy Gerring , 29 to Pat Bradley in her 40th year . |
| 19 | Giolitti lost power , and his government was pilloried by the socialists who whipped up public opinion in their newspaper , Avanti , edited by a young man with a future , Benito Mussolini . |
| 20 | The more dominant the task leader the greater the number of actors who take up maintenance roles to produce social balance . |
| 21 | Such concessions are designed for the Muslims who make up Indonesia 's poor rural majority . |
| 22 | That 's the name and the aim of the group of students who set up sporting events and experiences for young people with disabilities . |
| 23 | But for hundreds of sightseers who took up vantage points in the nearby mountains and on the main deck of an Urnersee pleasure boat , it was the disappointment of the year . |
| 24 | If things went wrong , she would be blamed , and her career as a detective — the career she had fought for so tenaciously , against the depredations of her husband , against male prejudice , against policemen who drove up back alleys on patrol when she was a constable and groped for a kiss — that career might crumble to dust . |