Example sentences of "broken up [art] " in BNC.

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1 Each of the hunt masters had signed their portion of the map , and each hunt had sent a brush — even those that had broken up no fox while she was in their country .
2 Marriages get broken up every day . ’
3 ‘ Marriages get broken up every day . ’
4 He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death .
5 The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago .
6 He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates .
7 When the factory was occupied in protest , the Ministry of Labour declared the strike illegal and the occupation was forcibly broken up a week later .
8 Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 .
9 Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan .
10 Somehow the outside world had intruded and broken up the fabric of the tale .
11 Trevor was not the sort of fellow who said , ‘ For art 's sake have I broken up the bar . ’
12 This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme .
13 But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage .
14 It 's the children themselves in the homes who 'd graffitied the walls , broken up the fabric of the homes .
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