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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jim Byrd bolted a line left of Route of All Evil and finished up True Path to produce Eraser Head E5 6b . |
| 10 | They dusted and polished the furniture , washed the floor , cleaned the windows and hung up new curtains and cleared out all the cupboards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the same time , the forest path and road lights were switched on and lit up vast tracts of the Heide . |
| 14 | In the summer of 1888 landowners from Poltawa came to the Amir 's dominion and bought up live sheep in Kara Kul , which they took home by the railway . |
| 15 | It got so bad we had to do the full old lady bit and put up net curtains . |
| 16 | They took all the new curtains out of the Chinese room and put up old ones instead . " |
| 17 | Then , Labour was accused of holding the tax timebomb , with secret plans to raise taxes and put up national insurance contributions . |
| 18 | Is it any surprise that some people took that example and ran up horrendous debts ? |
| 19 | We are paying the price , indirectly , for the reunification of Germany , which has fuelled inflation and pushed up German interest rates to the highest levels since the war . |
| 20 | Pilger was certain that Sutton 's accent dropped several social degrees and ended up strong south London . |
| 21 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 22 | We carried troops dropped them off in Italy and picked up German prisoners of war and Yugoslav refugees to take to Port Said . |
| 23 | The money will be used to step up technological know-how , to purchase restoration equipment and set up entire restoration studios in some countries including Colombia and Cuba . |
| 24 | Yvonne Simpson , honorary secretary of the BDA 's Darlington branch , said many hospitals had now gone beyond special staff and set up diabetic units staffed by consultants . |
| 25 | Users can be forced to change their passwords at set intervals , and you can examine an audit trail of a user 's previous passwords , and set up temporary accounts . |
| 26 | He settled into an export-import office in Bush House in the Strand , and set up parallel networks of secret intelligence agents to cover the penetrated areas , using the codename Z and avoiding the use of wireless . |
| 27 | Termites and ants do it seasonally when the time comes for them to mate , disperse and set up new colonies . |
| 28 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 29 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 30 | They write the programmes , devise the repertoires and set up standard operating procedures without which the financial , welfare , military and economic management tasks of government would not be administratively feasible . |