Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 2 | If you were keen and that well it was up to yourself a lot how you how you picked up a lot of things because if you were keen you could pick up anything you wanted if you were n't well that was just too bad it 's your own fault . |
| 3 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 4 | None of the old toadies who run these places will accept credit cards , so it 's hard to know how he ran up an Access account of approximately £1200 . |
| 5 | How he snatched up a fallen branch , when the young man came down the path , and struck him with it , and he fell senseless , and the hood fell back from his head . |
| 6 | Christopher Casabona was sentenced to two years probation after a jury heard how he tied up a woman lodger at her Felixstowe home before leaving with a 15-year-old girl . |
| 7 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 8 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 9 | Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time . |
| 10 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |
| 11 | THE London Monarchs made the sort of World League history they could do without when they gave up a record eight turnovers in Saturday 's 13–7 defeat at Barcelona Dragons . |
| 12 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
| 13 | Eisner shocked Disney when he took up an option in his contract to buy 5.4 million blue chip shares at bargain basement prices . |
| 14 | He said the only other complaint was in November when he put up a sign advertising the guest house . |
| 15 | Morton 's first overseas venture was in the UK in 1964 , when it set up a joint venture in Coventry to distribute the LP polymer . |
| 16 | A new one where he got up a |
| 17 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 18 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |
| 19 | On his retirement from the Civil Service six years ago … he became President of the Clapham Liberal Association , and at the General Election of 1916 was the chosen parliamentary candidate for the new constituency of South Battersea where he put up a strong fight against odds for what he firmly and honestly believed to be the tight . |