Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , more than that — a man who lacked the guts to face up to his responsibilities . |
| 2 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 3 | He made the putt to open up a five-shot lead . |
| 4 | So we made the decision to go up Beinn Damh , not a Munro , but nevertheless a divine mountain of 902 metres situated conveniently behind the cottage . |
| 5 | Because I just in my normal sort of intelligent way asked the librarian to come up with lots of cuttings on environmental health and let me have a quick little read , this was probably about twenty to three or something you know I probably needed about three weeks to do it . |
| 6 | Grace was juggling a full-time job with looking after three children when she got the idea to set up her business . |
| 7 | Then I got the call to pick up my car . |
| 8 | He produced Polaroids that Kubrick approved off , and got the go-ahead to set up a kind of gigantic horizontal animation stand . |
| 9 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 10 | It made the need for the establishment of some form of centralized and rational planning of public sector higher education even more urgent and , in the short term , it led the DES to set up a working group to overcome the important technical problems which the arbitrary capping of the pool had created . |
| 11 | A BNP spokesman attacked the decision to spend up to £40,000 on the Darlington branch . |
| 12 | But a BNP spokesman attacked the decision to spend up to £40,000 on the Darlington branch . |
| 13 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 14 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |
| 15 | Economic problems in the 1920s were compounded by the onset of the Great Depression , although Japan 's recovery after 1932 was rapid , and a flourishing export trade helped the country to build up a substantial heavy industrial sector . |
| 16 | Turning his car into a mobile advert for the book , he hustled copies outside clubs and used the money to print up part two , which in turn funded part three — in which Q broke the ultimate literary taboo and swapped the printed word for audiocassette , reading ever ambient funk backdrops . |
| 17 | Stuck for the precise word , the Colonel made a small gesture with his right hand which then efficiently used the momentum to pick up his claret . |
| 18 | Just like Maxwell , he used the fund to prop up his ailing company and got a family member to countersign cheques . |
| 19 | Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading . |
| 20 | Indeed she did , for having sacrificed herself for this damnable dress material it was no more than commonsense to make certain that no part of it had been damaged or soiled , that she could go to Miss Dallam presently , when she found the strength to get up out of this bed and tidy her hair and her cuts and bruises , as if absolutely nothing had occurred . |
| 21 | Along the way she found the time to set up Ranzau , and in March this year the couple ploughed their capital into beefing it up . |
| 22 | Following discussions by a forum of some 70 senior executives from the industry , brought together by the Association , and which invited the HCIMA to set up an industry-led accreditation scheme . |
| 23 | In 1989 , Cardiff City Council invited the Guild to set up a showcase for their work , as part of its temporary arts programme for the Old Library . |
| 24 | Then , the artistic aims of members of the group were quite varied , and some personal animosities caused the alliance to break up . |
| 25 | The sudden snap of Joseph 's history book closing caused the senator to glance up briefly but he did n't pause in his monologue ; his abstracted gaze followed the younger boy for only a moment as he sauntered away along the deck . |
| 26 | The French occupation of Schleswig-Holstein caused the family to break up . |
| 27 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 28 | Then in 1986 came the opportunity to set up independently with Tim Hely Hutchinson and Sue Fletcher . |
| 29 | On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform . |
| 30 | The £700,000 transfer from Charlton went through only 48 hours after Lee rejected the chance to link up again with his former boss Lennie Lawrence . |