Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information from the French , American and Russian experts who helped set up Iraq 's air defences will have helped in their defeat or circumvention — a jammer which knows how the enemy radar ‘ thinks ’ has a great advantage . |
| 2 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 3 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 4 | By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable . |
| 5 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
| 6 | All had prided themselves on training and nurturing their own people , and all boasted many employees who had notched up decades of faithful service . |
| 7 | Was it true that she had been one among others who had put up bail for Wullie Robertson ? |
| 8 | On April 2 the police used batons , tear gas and live ammunition to disperse hundreds of youths who had set up roadblocks and stoned and burned cars in shanty towns on the outskirts of the capital . |
| 9 | Antoinette was the best of the Leicester modistes , run by a little French émigrée who had set up shop and named it in memory of her martyred Queen . |
| 10 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 11 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |
| 12 | All three had been members of the Khmer Rouge administration in the eastern section of Cambodia who had taken up arms against the Pol Pot regime in 1978 . |
| 13 | When the rats who had taken up residence in his building were ousted . |
| 14 | In one study , cigar smokers who had taken up cigars after stopping cigarettes and smoked at least five cigars a day had a risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction about four times as high as that among ex-cigarette smokers who did not smoke cigars . |