Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 2 | Worcester 's Graham Hick becomes eligible for England next season and with question marks about the long-term fitness of Dilley , Radford and even Botham , it will be no surprise if either Donald or Moody ended up at New Road . |
| 3 | Barr and Barnes are among an increasing number who favour vouchers or bursaries topped up by loans . |
| 4 | Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots . |
| 5 | and then er , I whether Jack or Derek came up with it he said it was found in the car . |
| 6 | With ponds dug on the line , or streams banked up into ‘ flashes ’ to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day . |
| 7 | There are three main ways you can do this ; you can continue at school , have a home tutor , or attend a special unit or project set up for pregnant school-girls and school-age mothers . |
| 8 | Inevitably , perhaps , Parr and Jessica ended up in bed together at roughly the same time that evening . |
| 9 | The picture plane is further emphasized by the complete lack of aerial perspective ( the far houses are , if anything , darker and stronger in value than the foreground house ) , and by the fact that occasionally contours are broken and forms opened up into each other . |
| 10 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 11 | Many of IBM 's customers should be quite attracted to the idea too : APPN is generally recognised to be a flexible and robust set of networking protocols , and its users have substantial amounts of money and expertise tied up in it . |
| 12 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 13 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 14 | His crisp jabbing had Gary Newton of Teams instantly on the defensive , and Exley followed up with tremendous hooks that had Newton down three times in the first round before the referee stepped in . |
| 15 | They changed roles , and Lucie climbed up on the playmaster 's shoulders , his weight hardly bending Garvey 's back . |
| 16 | After a year abroad , Laura and Bernard drove up to Rhydoldog in snow to find that Ruby and Molly , as a welcoming gesture , had put out the French flag on the lawn . |
| 17 | He looked down at Edouard from the horse 's back , and Edouard looked up at him . |
| 18 | But this was probably more because of interference than natural decay : ‘ The bones [ are ] firmly united and the flesh and skin dried up like tanned leather . |
| 19 | He has taken it in response to the pressure and fight put up by the ‘ homelands Chief Ministers ’ — Buthelezi and Co . |
| 20 | In these older towns , too , the large houses of the middle class were divided into tenements to house the swarming population , and factories and warehouses went up on their gardens and orchards . |
| 21 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 22 | She began walking ahead quickly , and Piers kept up with her with long , easy strides . |
| 23 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 24 | He looked a little lost , and Kathleen went up to him . |
| 25 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 26 | Cheerful crashes and bangs floated up from Doris 's kitchen as I went back upstairs , and I could hear outbursts of raucous male laughter and pinch-induced shrieks . |
| 27 | In some of the more intensively managed ‘ confinement ’ operations , animals are crowded in pens and cages stacked up like so many shipping crates … . |
| 28 | The passing of the Mineral Exploration and Investment Grants Act 1972 ( under which the Department of Trade and Industry refunded up to 35 per cent of exploration costs for approved programmes ) gave further impetus to exploration activity . |
| 29 | Therefore , Coe and Hofland 's first prize was no longer valid as it was only sixth on unofficial lists , and Banks and Barry and Scott moved up to first and second places respectively on the Foreign Office list . |
| 30 | Tears of frustration and disappointment welled up in her eyes . |