Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Design a colour-coordinated room , grow plants in it , or put up a bookshelf to help those 300 hours pass more quickly ! |
| 3 | Councils in other parts of the country also adopted the Manchester approach and appointed workers or set up a unit . |
| 4 | They could have published a White Paper or set up a commission of inquiry . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or set up a business ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She put her nose high in the air and stalked up the garden . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen . |
| 19 | She riddled the dust and made up the fire and said , ‘ You two make friends time that 's cooked . |
| 20 | They leaped down and charged up the shore , yelling triumphantly . |
| 21 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 22 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ] . |
| 25 | The pilot has already spent twenty five years in the movie business and built up a collection of classic planes . |
| 26 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 27 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 28 | The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ( d. 1190 ) had established the German monarchy and built up the power of the emperor in the north to a hitherto unparalleled degree . |
| 29 | They brought in the horses , hobbled them and built up the fire . |
| 30 | At a time when Japanese cars were a joke , his faith and perseverance founded the Nissan dealerships and built up the business . |