Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 2 | Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work . |
| 3 | But again the songs ( whose content Comrade Wong resolutely translated for us in stage-whispers throughout ) harped on the great achievements of Mao , Chou and Hua , the last of whom seems to be being built up into a great leader matching his predecessors in stature . |
| 4 | The upright against which he rested stretched up like a great squared pillar into the ceiling high overhead , white-painted , the simplicity of its design emphasised by the seven pictograms carved into the wood and picked out in gold leaf-the characters forming couplets with those on the matching upright . |
| 5 | One wall was taken up by a great open fireplace , more suggestive of a baronial hall than a Georgian living-room . |
| 6 | Her husband , who had put up with a great deal , and was to put up with much more , was not yet prepared to lose his marital rights . |
| 7 | Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house . |
| 8 | Giardini of course shared his countrymen 's disdain for the German interloper J. C. Bach , who had already achieved modest successes on the London stage : in July 1763 he wrote that Bach had departed to ‘ great regrets and lamentations , but easily dried up without a great handkerchief ’ In the end London had to make do with Vento , who was largely responsible for stitching up patchwork operas from assorted numbers that Leone also helped to collect on his travels . |
| 9 | The Silmarillion was accordingly held up to a great extent , in Mr Carpenter 's view , by procrastination and bother over inessentials , by crosswords and games of Patience , by drawing heraldic doodles and answering readers ' letters — all compounded , one might add , by the failing energies of age ( see Letters , p. 228 ) . |