Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government officials insisted that they were not going to build walls or put up barbed wire round the embassies . |
| 2 | Conversely there were occasions when world oil production reached levels which could not be explained by known consumption forecasts , as IEA member governments established or topped up strategic stocks against the uncertainties of life , like the US government 's vast Strategic Petroleum Reserve ( SPR ) . |
| 3 | In the past year , five electronics firms have either expanded or set up new factories in Glenrothes , creating extra work for a couple of hundred people . |
| 4 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 5 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 6 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 7 | He won the award for the regular habitat improvements made on his 1,680 acre property , where he and his keeper alan Smith four years ago gave up rearing pheasants , and built up wild birds , both pheasants and partridges , which have gone from strength to strength . |
| 8 | I actually talked to my fellow students and built up some relations with people , which , if not quite friendships , at least satisfied the definition of acquaintance . |
| 9 | Tom spent the weekends with them and drove up many afternoons from Rome to dine with them and stay overnight . |
| 10 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 11 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 12 | Work like this also produced much information about the distribution of plants and animals , and turned up interesting fossils : the pursuit of manifest destiny could also benefit pure science . |
| 13 | And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it . |
| 14 | Jim Byrd bolted a line left of Route of All Evil and finished up True Path to produce Eraser Head E5 6b . |
| 15 | He turned , like a winning boxer , and raised up both arms , still brandishing the placard . |
| 16 | Here the waters are split and piled up either side of a pathway across the sea bed . |
| 17 | They dusted and polished the furniture , washed the floor , cleaned the windows and hung up new curtains and cleared out all the cupboards . |
| 18 | They smashed their way into two plants and poured paint and car oil on imported and domestic fish and smashed up 40 lorry trailers loaded with fish , police said . |
| 19 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 20 | ‘ My mother had earned money all her life and brought up three children at the same time seen their noses were wiped and their morals sound . |
| 21 | In the next four days , the dogs pulled the sledges eighty-one kilometres , and went up 3,000 metres . |
| 22 | They had emphasised agitation on the concrete issues of electoral reform and discrimination in housing and employment , but NICRA originally operated as a body which made representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and took up individual cases of infringement of rights . |
| 23 | I had it cleared , well dug and took up many trees , but left others standing for shelter . |
| 24 | Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures . |
| 25 | She held the idea of death briefly between her hands ; but noticed how fast her mind darted away and took up sentimental pictures of her funeral , of her mother 's and grandmother 's distress , of her friends . |
| 26 | With that she said no more but dropped down to her shelter and took up some food , an action that told Creggan he had best get on with it and ask no more questions . |
| 27 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 28 | He returned to pick up his account book and totted up some figures . |
| 29 | All had been recruited by Elaine and gave up one Sunday afternoon to complete the circular route around Kilmarnock for which they were sponsored . |
| 30 | Benjamin heard the faint crackling in the undergrowth but took one look at me and gave up any idea of pursuit . |