Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 2 | Marginal land had to be given up either to waste or to sheep and cattle , since it was no longer profitable to plough it . |
| 3 | In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 4 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 5 | They are never brought up again to taunt or accuse us . |