Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … or made up the answers , as you found on Sunday ? ’ |
| 2 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 3 | The railways also produced or speeded up the development of some of the early resort towns such as Skegness , Mablethorpe , Bournemouth , Swanage and Weston-super-Mare , and certainly allowed minor villages such as Cromer to become lesser resorts and ports such as Grimsby to be developed into major exporting centres . |
| 4 | The response of the existing publishers was traditional : they founded their own free weeklies or bought up the newcomers . |
| 5 | Design a colour-coordinated room , grow plants in it , or put up a bookshelf to help those 300 hours pass more quickly ! |
| 6 | The kitchen with a small staff cooked or warmed up the men 's food free of charge . |
| 7 | Councils in other parts of the country also adopted the Manchester approach and appointed workers or set up a unit . |
| 8 | They could have published a White Paper or set up a commission of inquiry . |
| 9 | It is up to them whether they move in with Mum and Dad or set up a caravan on site until the work is finished . |
| 10 | Or set up a business ? |
| 11 | We will strengthen support for such schemes and consult about the possibility of creating a new tax incentive to encourage companies to establish or extend an ESOP or set up a co-operative . |
| 12 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 13 | ‘ He must have heard something or picked up a scent but he led the rescuers to a bramble bush and the elderly man was found trapped inside . |
| 14 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 15 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 16 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 17 | A little way along , Vern stopped and sat on the very same wall and gazed up the gorge , like I 'd done , at the high flying bridge . |
| 18 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |
| 19 | The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street . |
| 20 | She put her nose high in the air and stalked up the garden . |
| 21 | What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’ |
| 22 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |
| 23 | She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen . |
| 24 | She riddled the dust and made up the fire and said , ‘ You two make friends time that 's cooked . |
| 25 | They leaped down and charged up the shore , yelling triumphantly . |
| 26 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 27 | Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children . |
| 28 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 29 | Because they are arranged along the animal , each of the organs receives a slightly different impression of a disturbance , allowing the animal to locate its source and built up a picture of its surroundings . |
| 30 | From March 1743 he began to preach and built up a network of religious societies in Derbyshire , Cheshire , and south-east Lancashire , which soon became part of the Methodist organization led by John Wesley [ q.v . ] . |