Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his 17 years in Sao Paulo Arns had set up grassroots organizations dealing with social issues affecting the poor , including human rights and problems with the police . |
| 2 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 3 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 4 | Benny had picked up Eve 's handbag , a small cheap plastic one which Mother Francis had bought for her in Peggy Pine 's shop as a going-to-Dublin present a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | Out of the former PNI , Sukarno had taken up partindo , and within one year its membership soared to 20000 . |
| 6 | However much she was questioned , Edna had shut up shop , as it were , whenever Celia mentioned her mother . |
| 7 | Admittedly , these were early days in the season , before the tough training schedule at Richmond had beefed up fitness levels . |
| 8 | On June 18 it was reported that Armenia had called up reservists aged under 35 , and a one-month state of emergency was declared in Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 9 | ( Martin had taken up residence there by 1667 , following his marriage , and Jean by 1668 , the year his eldest son died ( Arch . |
| 10 | His plea came as America confirmed Serbs had set up concentration camps in which thousands of Bosnian and Croatian civilians were detained or tortured and killed . |
| 11 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 12 | Horowitz had picked up Eva Hendrix from the villa on the way to Frankfurt Airport . |
| 13 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 14 | By 1991 , Leeds LEA had set up services and procedures to guide and support schools in these novel areas of activity , and there was no shortage of advice from other sources . |
| 15 | In the late eighteenth century , John and William Hunter had built up collections of anatomical specimens for teaching purposes ; the Hunterian Collection in London became one of the sights not to be missed by the intellectual tourist in the early Victorian period , when Richard Owen was in charge of it . |
| 16 | Leonard had given up architecture to help with the business . |
| 17 | Jay had taken up situationist sculpture , and eased herself half upright to look at yesterday evening 's achievement . |
| 18 | Conscious of the uncertainty attending relations with its Middle East neighbours , however , Iraq had set up contingency arrangements . |
| 19 | Bill had come up trumps . |
| 20 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |
| 21 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 22 | You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room . |
| 23 | Back at home with their baby he was quick to be the one to change the nappies and administer the bottle feed once Liddie had given up breastfeeding . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the Elector Carl Theodor had taken up residence in Munich , and had invited the members of his court to join him there ( though they could stay on at Mannheim and retain their salaries if they wished ) . |
| 25 | In a move reportedly designed to persuade the Soviet Union to abandon its rail-mounted mobile intercontinental missile system , the SS-24 , Bush said that the USA had given up plans to develop mobile versions of the MX and Midgetman missiles and that a programme to build the short-range attack missile ( SRAM ) had also been cancelled . |
| 26 | Reports in early July said that the USA had drawn up plans for closer monitoring of international sanctions against Iraq following Jordan 's alleged violation of the trade embargo . |
| 27 | But John , he noticed , tended to wander outside as often as he felt tempted to do ; while Astorre had set up house quite candidly in the kitchens . |