Example sentences of "broke up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the mouldboards lifted and inverted the soil , the tines on the powered rotors broke up the furrow slices . |
| 2 | The application of towers dramatically broke up the monotony , as in Francis Thompson 's Chester General and P. C. Hardwick 's Royal Great Western Hotel , Paddington . |
| 3 | The farmers affected broke up the new flood-banks , and after being arrested initially , were released on the grounds that the enclosure commissioners had exceeded their powers in constructing the drainage works . |
| 4 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 5 | Concerned about its lack of a voice in local radio , the Federal Government has now decided to reverse the policy of the previous military regime which broke up the NBC in 1978 . |
| 6 | Pub manager Dave Bruce broke up the fight and said both Sharpe and his friend were punching Mr Patterson . |
| 7 | He was , he said , threatened with murder ; and when he travelled round his diocese he was preceded by a troop of horse which broke up the illegal meetings . |
| 8 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 10 | The English archers broke up the Scottish positions and the Earl of Dunbar and Robert the Steward fled with their troops . |
| 11 | Dissension among France 's enemies broke up the Second Coalition , though not before Russia 's most revered commander , Suvorov , had temporarily driven the French from northern Italy and conducted a legendary retreat through the Swiss Alps . |
| 12 | The mosquitoes broke up the party . |
| 13 | The Transport Act 1962 broke up the British Transport Commission established under the Transport Act 1947 . |
| 14 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 15 | Several supports broke up the smooth appearance of the walls , and joined the floor and ceiling at angles that did n't seem really workable . |
| 16 | A tall hotel broke up the skyline of the night . |
| 17 | I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton . |
| 18 | It broke up the crew and left the cameraman shaking underneath his camera . |
| 19 | After the police broke up the meeting the demonstration turned to violence and looting ; more than 1,000 people were arrested as rioting spread to other towns . |
| 20 | On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters . |
| 21 | As the meeting broke up the conversation turned to Archer 's party . |
| 22 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 23 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 24 | French film makers broke up the Cannes festival in solidarity . |
| 25 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |