Example sentences of "who [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 2 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 3 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 4 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 5 | Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger . |
| 6 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 7 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 8 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 9 | We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo . |
| 10 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 11 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 12 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 13 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 14 | Mr Smith , who drew up the report into purchasing powers , said the moves did not mean the end of existing district health authorities . |
| 15 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 16 | The story which most reminds me of animism ( if anything does ) is that of the angel who stirred up the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:1–15 ) . |
| 17 | In the Cornish mines the tutworkers who opened up the ground usually worked eight-hour shifts , with three shifts over twenty-four hours known by the mid eighteenth century . |
| 18 | Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation . |
| 19 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 20 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 21 | Who screwed up the father |
| 22 | According to frantic signs from Pion , who climbed up the bush , there were humans , much further off . |
| 23 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 24 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 25 | As the woman who dreamed up the slogan ‘ A Dog Is For Life , Not Just For Christmas ’ , she needs to have a high profile for campaigning , while still being able to turn her hand to clearing the odd blocked drain that might occur at the kennels . |
| 26 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 27 | A beekeeper himself with 10 hives in the manse garden it was the Dean who dreamed up the idea of a honey service four years ago . |
| 28 | ‘ It was you who brought up the subject , ’ he pointed out crisply . |
| 29 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 30 | Who thought up the idea that the payment mechanism — the Letter of Credit — should be independent from the underlying sales contract ? |