Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [art] local " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 2 | Five of us met up in a local pub afterwards and only one of us was still married . |
| 3 | He also stocked up at a local health shop with various things he could nibble discreetly en route . |
| 4 | Most of the southern states resisted this and in one particular state one that 's sprung to prominence in recent times , the State of Arkansas er and its capital Little Rock , the then state governor , who was n't then Bill Clinton but a man called Orville Forbus defied the supreme court 's order and on a historic day in nineteen fifty four a little troupe of black children trooped up to the local high school and were met by armed , armed police and turned away . |
| 5 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 6 | In Hatfield Chase today , you can see a sign put up by a local farmer with a sense of humour . |
| 7 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 8 | She failed her eleven-plus and ended up at a local secondary modern school , which turned out to be a blessing in disguise . |