Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rajmapata found the best surface up the far rail in the Carrie Red Fillies Nursery , Flight Lieutenant got up to beat Roberty Lea in the Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Final , and Tickerty 's Gift collected the Cowies PLC Limited Stakes . |
| 2 | In a housing project car park , we watched as a white Cadillac stretch limousine pulled up to buy cocaine from the barrio kids , while Los Angeles 's contribution to the economy of the underclass . |
| 3 | Task force set up to tackle Glasgow 's health gap |
| 4 | Hawick , Selkirk , Galashiels , Peebles , Kelso , Melrose and Innerleithen were the seven original members of an Association set up to promote competition throughout the Borders . |
| 5 | From the west and north powerful gales swept from off the north Atlantic Ocean , sending great waves roaring into the cliffs below his flight , and spumes of sea-spray came up to put salt on his wings . |
| 6 | It is not pleasant to read the account of the plot got up to entice Forster 's boyfriend Bob Buckingham away from his wife , and not difficult to agree with PC Daley 's description of the Forster circle as ‘ pimps ’ . |
| 7 | Lindsey 's gaze flew up to meet Niall 's , and he shrugged dismissively . |
| 8 | The boy grew up to become Merlin . |
| 9 | A more devious theory is that the whole red-mercury affair is simply a fantasy dreamt up to make Mr Rutskoi look foolish . |
| 10 | Some of its expansion plans backfired , including a subsidiary set up to recruit minorities — women and non-Americans — which was perhaps too far ahead of its time ; it folded after four years , having made heavy losses . |
| 11 | An ecological council set up to advise Poland 's President Lech Walesa held its inaugural meeting in February . |
| 12 | A report by an internal party committee set up to review Labour 's failure in elections in November 1988 , which had been presented to the central committee on May 27 , strongly criticised Peres for running a campaign based on the cult of his own personality . |
| 13 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 14 | The mestizo looked up to see Trent watching him . |
| 15 | CHEEKY thieves have got away with money and equipment from the offices of a group set up to tackle crime . |
| 16 | Members of the health authority team set up to give advice on the ‘ physical , psychological , communication and mental health needs ’ of people with learning difficulties are often difficult to contact when support workers want to discuss problems relating to the women . |
| 17 | Recognising the value of this support from the credit industry , we believe however that still more could be gained from a new body set up to promote money management education , both in schools and outside . |
| 18 | The independent body set up to hear appeals against exam results said last night the number of complaints has tripled in the past year . |
| 19 | A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter . |
| 20 | Within minutes a ten foot wall of water built up causing devastation in the centre of Cardigan and washing away everything in its path as the Mwldan tributary of the Teifi burst its banks . |
| 21 | The Government has seriously miscalculated the effect of privatisation on through rail fares and the national timetable , according to a report produced by ‘ Platform ’ an 80-member organisation set up to represent users ' needs . |
| 22 | The troupe made the performance in aid of CAF ( Contact-A-Family ) , a registered charity set up to support families with handicapped children . |
| 23 | A year ago , they joined Child , a registered self-help charity set up to assist couples in coming to terms with infertility . |
| 24 | Around 20 protestors at their Surrey HQ on Sunday night ended up throwing flour bombs and eggs at startled residents before police swept them away , and yesterday 's protestors fared no better . |
| 25 | The ban did not include Madeira , and an important trade opened up sending madeira wine to the Plantations ( the West Indies and the American colonies such as Virginia , New England , New York and the Carolinas ) . |
| 26 | A black-and-white Tudor manor house , separated by a gravelled car park from a modern two-storey extension mocked up to resemble stables ; lawns behind sloping away towards the wooded flanks of the Surrey hills ; the colours of St. George hanging limply from a flagstaff ; three geese in flight across a swash-lettered nameboard ; and smoke pluming vertically from slender chimney stacks . |
| 27 | The ban complied with a request by the head of a judicial commission set up to investigate instances of corruption and abuse perpetrated by the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and by successor governments . |
| 28 | Whether it will go ahead will be a test of the new Railtrak authority set up to control investment in the railways after privatisation . |
| 29 | No , the man gave up writing years ago . |
| 30 | These approvals are the first to come forward under the transitional arrangements the Government set up to cover RECHAR in the 1992–93 financial year . |