Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After gaining the necessary permissions to enter classrooms my freedom to follow up themes and issues discussed in interviews was very great . |
| 2 | But my mind conjures up images of how they know my secret shame , and are talking about me behind my back . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's why my nose ended up flat against my face . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and re-organise as best I can . |
| 5 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and to re-organise as best I can . |
| 6 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 7 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |
| 8 | Why do the starlings in my garden pull up stalks of marjoram and fly off with them ? |
| 9 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 10 | I was sitting quietly in my office tidying up records when a duty nurse came in . |
| 11 | It one thing to accept that she had no future with Harry and quite another to force her heart to give up hope , to stop loving him . |
| 12 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 13 | These villages were settled by colonists who were given exemption from feudal obligations to the local Croatian nobility in return for their willingness to take up arms against the Turks . |
| 14 | Its dendrites pick up information from other neurons , and the axon and its terminals pass this on to other cells . |
| 15 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 16 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 17 | Her eyes ate up Nicandra 's beaded satin , and shifted disapprovingly from Lalage 's muslins — a clothes snob to the last . |
| 18 | Fix it for someone who does n't love the Scum to present and commentate on Manc of the Day , Alan Hanson 's brilliant but the rest seem to have their noses burried up Alex Fergusons behind or even Eric the Fleds . |
| 19 | Once their children are old enough they migrate to town and with their savings start up businesses , often forming a syndicate with other women . |
| 20 | Four baby elephants are trundling along the dry ground in the blazing African sun , their feet brushing up clouds of dust . |
| 21 | Samantha do n't worry and Paul Paula who was very sweet , and told us about when her parents split up Reece who was also very sweet and erm Paula |
| 22 | Her incentive to take up painting came after she read an article in the Sunday Telegraph about Brigitte Bardot , and , in particular , a poem titled ‘ Complaint of an abandoned dog ’ . |
| 23 | Without warning she towered to her feet and he found himself facing into her breasts before stepping back to give her room to pick up gloves and handbag . |
| 24 | He maintained the IFA 's statement resulted from its desire to speed up court cases pending against IBM and used the tired old argument about local opposition blocking further investment and thus hurting the local economy : ‘ Irish Base Metals are working with a major oil company and we have to convince them that Ireland and Galway are good places for investment . |
| 25 | Many officers resigned their commissions to take up jobs with the new company . |
| 26 | The British government faces prosecution in the European court over of its failure to clean up Blackpool , Formby and Southport beaches . |
| 27 | When , ultimately , they fail in their efforts to give up drink or drug use , they become exceedingly fearful and ashamed and may even believe themselves to be insane . |
| 28 | Knowing he was greatly influenced by astrology , she persuaded the most famous astrologer of her day to draw up horoscopes for herself and the man she was betrothed to . |
| 29 | She and her daughter set up schools in New Haven and New York , where her daughter died in 1828 , leaving her and her four grandchildren to a semi-nomadic and seemingly ill-fated existence in America . |
| 30 | During the Second World War , many of the world 's armies were in foreign lands , and countries had to send music and entertainment to their forces to keep up morale . |