Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 2 | Riven tried to dredge up images of their foes from his books , but the reality of the rain , the darkness , and the approaching pack left him no time to think . |
| 3 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 4 | Just as Darwin tried to build up series of small changes as in dog or pigeon-breeding to enormous evolutionary changes , so they sought continuity between unsurprising telepathy and the seeing of phantasms . |
| 5 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 6 | Teachers began to build up collections of visually interesting objects to stimulate learning , as well as original works of Art and specimens from the " Schools Museum Service " . |
| 7 | When I 'd extracted my head from the carrying rope , Kāli untied the bale and started scooping up armloads of pine-needles and throwing them to the top of the pile . |
| 8 | When they examined thin sections of their samples under the microscope , stained to pick up particles of iron , they found appreciable concentrations of the metal only in these same bones ( Nature , vol 301 , p 78 ) . |
| 9 | 30–4 " The court met to take up consideration of Archibald Currie 's case . |
| 10 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 12 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 13 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 14 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 15 | It had conjured up visions of arcane Celtic stews bubbling mysteriously in metal vessels , and bitter rowan-beer strengthened by the bodies of songbirds . |
| 16 | It had scooped up armfuls of holiday bookings following the the collapse of Harry Goodman 's ILG group , which had taken with it one of Airtours ' biggest rivals , Intasun . |
| 17 | Much time is spent by teacher-librarians in secondary schools in giving pupils busy introductions to reference books and library catalogues , and we saw in Chapter 3 how tutor-librarians in technical institutions along Hertfordshire lines had built up programmes of instruction in all aspects of information-seeking . |
| 18 | In the late eighteenth century , John and William Hunter had built up collections of anatomical specimens for teaching purposes ; the Hunterian Collection in London became one of the sights not to be missed by the intellectual tourist in the early Victorian period , when Richard Owen was in charge of it . |
| 19 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 20 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 21 | Almost all had brought up children of their own and 80 per cent had had voluntary experience in schools . |
| 22 | All had prided themselves on training and nurturing their own people , and all boasted many employees who had notched up decades of faithful service . |
| 23 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 24 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 25 | Kings wanted to build up reserves of bullion for the very practical reason that it would enable them to recruit armies , and it was also true that gold and silver had a great power to dazzle men 's minds . |