Example sentences of "who [vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Historically , though , it was mountaineers from Britain who opened up the central part of the range in the heyday of Victorian adventure . |
| 11 | Stunned police hunting the maniacs who rigged up the deadly device said the 13-year-old should have been killed instantly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 14 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 15 | For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 18 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |
| 19 | And who put up the fat poster ? ’ |
| 20 | One of them Derek Clark is the man who dreamt up the new idea … took the plunge into the sailing revolution |
| 21 | In windy conditions , Tracy , who picked up the Irish Ladies title at Lough Erne last month , completed the 10. mile course in five hours and minutes . |
| 22 | It 's another outrageous stroke by Forest boss Brian Clough , who picked up the stocky striker after he was handed a free transfer by West Bromwich . |
| 23 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 24 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 25 | Nkumbula 's lack of vigour in attacking the Federation , once established , and in supporting participation in the elections for the Legislative Council in 1958 led to the breakaway from the ANC of Kaunda , Simon Kapwepwe and others who set up the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) in 1959 . |
| 26 | His father was a French army officer who set up the Moroccan secret service for the king . |
| 27 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |