Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 2 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 3 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 4 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 5 | Pamella spent four days under siege while the pack sat outside and merrily divvied up the 24-hour doorstep into shifts . |
| 6 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 7 | Fran struggled briefly , but soon gave up the uneven match , letting herself rest against his chest while he stroked her hair with a surprisingly gentle hand . |
| 8 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 9 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 10 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 11 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 12 | Bonar Law promptly gave up the whole idea , with obvious relief , as he told Balfour : |
| 13 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 14 | Lyell made people aware by the 1830s of the great age of the Earth , and he also divided up the Tertiary period , using a statistical method based upon the proportions of existing species found among the fossils . |
| 15 | He also set up the renowned Creature Shops to develop animatronics for the film and television industries and which recently made the masks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |
| 16 | Paul also picked up the monthly prize for February when other winners were Peter Daly ( South Home Counties ) , Bob Bray ( Midlands and South West England ) , Alastair Valentine ( East Scotland ) , Paul Melvin ( Glasgow ) and Marjory Simpson ( North Scotland ) . |
| 17 | On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters . |
| 18 | The very phrase ‘ the Ulster people ’ refers to those who originally set up the true faith in Ireland and colonized the land accordingly . |
| 19 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 20 | He indirectly set up the first try for Kenny Hooks , and his catching and powerful driving off the tail of the line out kept Collegians on the back foot . |
| 21 | As for Lee Marvin , he eventually gave up the hard liquor . |
| 22 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 23 | Laying these aside quietly , they then prised up the thin lead sheathing from round the edges of the glass and gouged out the putty holding the pane in place . |
| 24 | I worked right through it and then looked up the proper translation , which was at the end of the book . |
| 25 | Pushing his arms into the waistcoat , which he then buttoned up the wrong way in his confusion , he pointed to the girl who had lifted the veil of wet hair from her face and was peeking out of one eye . |
| 26 | He exchanged a polite smile with the secretary after Karen had left , then picked up the only magazine on the coffee table and leafed through it , his interest not overly stimulated by a computer programming manual written in German . |
| 27 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 28 | The moon slid out from behind a cloud and again lit up the open land . |
| 29 | These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system . |
| 30 | Rosa too woke up the next day unsure whether she had walked in the street below in a dream , but the mud between her toes showed her that she had indeed left the house . |