Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 2 | We reached the much photographed Nape 's Needle and skimmed up the short , yet difficult , chimney of boot-worn rock . |
| 3 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 4 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 5 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 6 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 7 | The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams . |
| 8 | In several important ways , they resemble ourselves , for they are heirs to an ancient history and deep culture , and built up a great sea-going empire through gruelling effort and wise leadership . |
| 9 | He also introduced a bleachfield to supplement the local cloth trade , and built up a local mining and coal-selling business . |
| 10 | In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third . |
| 11 | He extended the family fortunes by marrying a Welsh heiress , and built up a considerable personal wealth by acting as a mortgage broker to less fortunate or less thrifty members of the gentry . |
| 12 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 14 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 15 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 16 | In her room Phoebe pulled on her jeans and a shirt , and snatched up a thick pullover and the bottom half of her track suit for Maggie . |
| 17 | Quickly he went down the ladder , crossed the kitchen and snatched up the top one of a pile of washed sacks from behind the kitchen door . |
| 18 | Thus Stalin prevented Poland and Czechoslovakia from attending the conference of 16 European nations , which met in Paris between July and September , and drew up a joint economic recovery programme to be financed by America . |
| 19 | The Champagne houses were naturally outraged at the government 's ineptitude and drew up a vociferous protest , signed by eighty participants , condemning the publicity given to the ministerial communiqué . |
| 20 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 21 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 22 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 23 | A Shrewsbury architect , Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , had the idea and drew up the original plan , but the design was modified in the process of building the bridge . |
| 24 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 25 | He turned his head and spat , then buckled and retched up a thin stream of vomit . |
| 26 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 27 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 28 | They loaded the launcher and a box of black clays into the back of the Toyota , and drove up an old gated track to the little-used range . |
| 29 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 30 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |