Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 2 | Just as they loved colour , they loved oratory , even when they could not understand it : in 1901 delegates at the Free Church Council meeting in Cardiff stood up to welcome five former French priests . |
| 3 | Pacem in Terris summed up Pope John 's magisterium , and gave the age-old term a new meaning . |
| 4 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 5 | A punter at Pontefract races collected £24,843 for a 10p investment while another customer at a Tote betting shop in Paddington picked up £12,421 for a 5p outlay . |
| 6 | Her family and former schoolfriends in Crosby set up the Vicki Bayliss Neuroblastoma Research Fund in her memory and tomorrow her mother , Judy , will join the 850 runners who have applied to take part in the 11th Crosby 10 . |
| 7 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 8 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 9 | Whilst on a tour of South Africa , the rugby team , pictured above , from Loretto School in Scotland met up with staff from Ellerman & Bucknall in Cape Town for what their agenda described as ‘ P&O Day ’ . |
| 10 | Outbreaks of anti-government protests and of religious violence in several parts of the country in May left up to 300 people dead . |
| 11 | A similar appeal in May turned up new faces , several of whom are still in the reckoning for a place on the under-international panel . |
| 12 | At the 1981 Salzburg Easter Festival , the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Salzburg teamed up with Sony , Philips , and the Polygram group to announce the imminent launch of the compact disc . |
| 13 | Also known as Fomorians , hideous demons in Ireland made up of a motley of twisted beast and human flesh , who pre-existed the Great Flood . |
| 14 | BUSINESSMEN in Shanghai lined up at the weekend for the city 's first auction of lucky telephone numbers since the 1949 revolution . |
| 15 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |
| 16 | Blackwells in Reading set up an ‘ Under £10 ’ table , which had to be constantly replenished and which the group may well replicate in other shops next year . |
| 17 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 18 | Although his work in Kidderminster took up so much of his time and energy , Richard Baxter 's vision extended beyond the confines of his own parish . |
| 19 | But the information which was handled in FEMIS made up only the bones of college work and it seems likely that the initial difficulty experienced in FE about translating information into worthwhile knowledge about the improvement in learning would also be experienced at the primary or secondary levels . |
| 20 | In 1879 , breeders in Friesland set up a separate herdbook , the Friesch Rundvee Stamboek ( FRS ) . |
| 21 | In one year , 30 per cent of the workforce at the up-scale Marriott Marquis in Atlanta came up with 2800 suggestions to improve service . |
| 22 | All the simmering anger in Jess flared up . |
| 23 | An old miner in Barnsley summed up the euphoria : |
| 24 | Grocery prices in Britain went up 26 per cent between 1985 and 1990 — compared with five per cent in Germany and 16 per cent in France . |
| 25 | It is a long time since any potential national leader in Britain leapt up from the starting-blocks in quite such a dramatic way . |
| 26 | The use of polyethylene terephthalate on a commercial scale for bottles — by a process known by the clumsy name of injection stretch blow moulding — began in the USA in 1977 , and by 1979 , when ICI in Europe took up the development , American consumption had risen to 140 kta . |
| 27 | At the same time any talk of strong policies in Europe ran up against the belief that the continent was indefensible for the foreseeable future . |
| 28 | A Grand Jury in California handed up indictments against two officers of Symantec Corp alleging that they stole trade secrets from Borland International Inc after a six-month investigation by the district attorney 's office of Santa Cruz County , California into the allegations that a Borland officer brought confidential company material with him when he left Borland to join Symantec ; Symantec says that last it hired an independent law firm to look into the charges , and it was given the opinion that there was no crime committed and that none of the items constitute trade secrets . |
| 29 | ‘ This list of rare plants in Durham turned up in various correspondences , but it was always assumed that it was Stephen Robson 's list , ’ says Alec . |
| 30 | Only one out of 208 pints served in 104 pubs , clubs and restaurants in Birmingham came up to a full measure , trading standards officers disclosed . |