Example sentences of "who [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what terrible damage they do , have done through the centuries , from the Inquisitor General to Stalin , to your young neighbour in the IRA who believes in the Catholic God and uses that to justify his murdering you in your bed , to the Mullah who whips up the faithful to civil strife in the name of Allah , to the Moonie who steals your children 's money and affections . |
| 2 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 3 | And at the end of the twentieth century , it is the unchurched who make up the vast , tens of millions strong majority of the population . |
| 4 | ‘ These are the people who make up the vast majority of the paperback book-buying public . ’ |
| 5 | Two more world champions are in action tonight ; Swindon 's Bob Anderson lines up with John Lowe at the Super Marine Club in South Marston to take on a handful of local challengers who make up the best in the west . |
| 6 | They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears Only those books come down which deserve to last . |
| 7 | In these circumstances it necessitated ‘ the employment of commercial wage-workers who make up the actual office staff ’ . |
| 8 | It is these highly-skilled experts who make up the 85-year-old association and exclusive club over which Mr Smythe now presides . |
| 9 | That comforting ‘ usual ’ audience are the connoisseurs of all things cool who make up the heaving Dingwall 's audience on any Sunday afternoon . |
| 10 | CIOB members , who make up the single biggest group of professional visitors to Interbuild , are to be offered complimentary Select Gold membership at the show . |
| 11 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 12 | Most of the Poles who went to Russia in the belief that this would help to restore their country 's independent existence never returned : of the 82,000 Poles who made up the Grand Armée 's V Corps , only 2,300 survived the retreat from Moscow . |
| 13 | Taxis , limousines and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces disgorged their occupants and luggage twenty trunks or more for some passengers — into a crowd of porters , stewards , sleek businessmen , tycoons , bright young things , would-bc debutantes , aristocrats , parvenus , celebrities , movie-stars , and all the families and friends who made up the send-off party . |
| 14 | This year 's games , however , did not have the human interest of Calgary — Eddie Edwards , the Jamaican bob-sleigh team 's reggae single , or the four waiters ( coached by their dad ) who made up the Mexican bob team . |
| 15 | The three women who made up the much-admired Daily Mirror Reader Service , introduced in 1944 but cut by Maxwell ( on New Year 's Eve 1985 , the same day as Pilger himself had been ‘ purged ’ , as he put it ) , would come en masse , providing an unmatchable advice forum for the paper 's buyers . |
| 16 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 17 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 18 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 19 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 20 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 21 | It is the wealth creators , he said , who open up the great possibilities for improvement in our society . |
| 22 | Historically , though , it was mountaineers from Britain who opened up the central part of the range in the heyday of Victorian adventure . |
| 23 | Stunned police hunting the maniacs who rigged up the deadly device said the 13-year-old should have been killed instantly . |
| 24 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 25 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 26 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 27 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 28 | It is the Night Goblin shamans who brew up the Mad Cap mushroom brew which sends the Goblin Fanatics drink into a whirling frenzy . |
| 29 | For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident . |
| 30 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |