Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1881 the Crystal Palace Company set up the Crystal Palace School of Gardening , and Milner became its principal . |
| 2 | ALEXANDRE NADOBENKO of the Kazakhstan team powered up the cobbled William Brown Street for victory at the end of the 116-miles 10th stage of the 1,150-mile Milk Race from Sheffield to Liverpool yesterday . |
| 3 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 4 | About 24 teams from local businesses in the Cambridge area took up the Cambridge Regional College initiative , to complete a number of different challenges in support of the local community . |
| 5 | One respondent in the Yorkshire survey summed up the difficulties : ‘ One has to recognise that the pressures on consultants are increasing steadily — workload , management , teaching , financial control , reduction of juniors ’ hours … |
| 6 | In 1985 Gateshead CAB set up the Refugee Specialist Advice Project which helps refugees , asylum-seekers , and those with exceptional circumstances , to remain in the UK . |
| 7 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |
| 8 | Its internal priorities reshuffled , the Princetown Input crept up the list . |
| 9 | However , the US administration stepped up the food aid programme in spite of the Lavoro scandal and the suspicions of the Department of Agriculture . |
| 10 | Alfred Hedgehog climbed up the bank of the canal and started off down the trail . |
| 11 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 12 | Fearing that Germany might win the race to develop this weapon , the US government set up the Manhattan Project , costing $2 billion and involving some 150 000 people , including most of the world 's most outstanding physicists . |
| 13 | Shetland Bird Club took up the issue and have appealed to the government to curb the fishery , even presenting a petition to the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | Mrs Phillipa Grove took up the lease in 1782 and on her death her daughter , Miss Phillipa Grove renewed the tenancy and payed £44. 10s a year rent to Lord Pembroke . |
| 15 | The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s . |
| 16 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |