Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all over 60 parties and groups put up candidates . |
| 2 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 3 | Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ . |
| 4 | The first of these involved grassroots campaigning , the setting up of local groups , farmers and landowners putting up notices stating ‘ No Uranium Prospecting ’ . |
| 5 | Anticipating intervention by Moldavian armed units , the authorities in the towns of Tiraspol , Bendery , Dubossary and Rybnitsa declared a state of emergency , and residents set up blockades and organized militia detachments . |
| 6 | WITH so many western companies , consultants , bankers , venture capitalists and others setting up offices there , Budapest 's telephone directory can not keep up . |
| 7 | But Mr Arnold Keilberth , of the German Union in Prague , said there were individual efforts to forge new relations : ‘ There have been voluntary agreements between Sudetens and Czechs to clean up cemeteries in Bohemia . |
| 8 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |