Example sentences of "[vb past] up [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PHIL NEAL , hero of the Kop and 50 times an international , last week stepped up to coach the England team . |
| 2 | Panic was the feeling Alice had when , after several tries , she gave up attempting the Beethoven . |
| 3 | She 'd come to Nepal with a back-pack three years earlier and ended up marrying the US embassy dentist . |
| 4 | Even though we ended up winning the FA Cup I feel we never really got started last season . |
| 5 | A system of self-regulatory organisations ( SROs ) was set up under the auspices of the DTI and the Securities and Investments Board , the latter set up to authorise the SROs and oversee their operations . |
| 6 | Claiming that Zimbabweans in Mozambican uniforms were operating in 52 other places ( in seven of Mozambique 's 11 provinces ) , the MNR complained of an alleged lack of impartiality on the part of the international Joint Verification Commission ( JVC ) set up to monitor the Rome agreement . |
| 7 | In the short run he wished to rally moderate Indian opinion , which had been put out of countenance by its non-inclusion in the Simon Commission , set up to review the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in 1927 ; in the long term he wished to save India for the Commonwealth . |
| 8 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |