Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 2 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 3 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 4 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 5 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |
| 6 | He may have inherited some of his eccentricity from his father , Bernard , who built up a vast multi-national engineering company from scratch and then acquired a circus as a sideline , training his own Lippizaner stallions . |
| 7 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 8 | The document was found among the many original musical manuscripts left by Lucien Garban , an intimate friend who kept up a fascinating correspondence with the composer . |
| 9 | A QUARRY worker who blew up a 19th century listed Methodist chapel was jailed yesterday with the property developer who hired him . |
| 10 | One woman , who took up a new career in midlife , described how her mother , who had always had a great appetite for life , now seemed.to live through her . |
| 11 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 12 | This ‘ seeing God ’ , a project not just for the afterlife , not just ‘ jam tomorrow ’ , was the high ambition of anyone who took up a penitential life . |
| 13 | ‘ Teleworking is the future , ’ says Wickes , who gave up a three-hour daily commuter round trip to run a specialist information technology service from his home . |
| 14 | Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin . |
| 15 | It was heartbreaking for Cambridge , who put up a tremendous fight all the way , but Oxford always had the better rhythm . |
| 16 | Daly , meanwhile , has paid tribute to Northern League Northallerton , who put up a battling display before being beaten 3–0 by the Conference club on Saturday . |
| 17 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 18 | Hallworth , who picked up a dead leg in a pre-season friendly , said yesterday : ‘ If it is still as sore nearer Saturday I wo n't be playing at Chelsea . ’ |
| 19 | Your obituary notice today , recording the death of Mary , Duchess of Buccleuch , says she will be remembered as an illustrious , aristocratic character who held up a Royal canopy . |
| 20 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |