Example sentences of "that [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’ |
| 2 | In Warmia and Mazuria , two of the districts that made up East Prussia , the Poles suffered serious reverses , gaining only 3 of the 28 disputed villages . |
| 3 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 4 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 5 | The advert for grandparents that came up trumps . |
| 6 | Nor could he believe he had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see , for to believe that opened up possibilities too sinister to be endured . |
| 7 | I came out of the hillbilly punk scene that shook up LA , scene where you hung out with your contemporaries and viewed the established rockers with suspicion . |
| 8 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 9 | The following evening , after a slogging nine-hour march over volcanic hills that threw up waves of heat , making me irritable and all of us tired and thirsty , we toiled up yet another rise and suddenly saw Lake Hertale below us . |
| 10 | In addition , the balance sheet formats prescribed by companies legislation require that called up share capital is stated separately from liabilities . |
| 11 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 12 | This Ross , and that 's the man that started up Oliver Tractors , of Southbend , In I think it was Southbend , Indiana . |
| 13 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 14 | Abdel Basset Mohammad al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah are accused of planting the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988 , killing 270 people . |
| 15 | Law-enforcement officials say the fear now is that the terrorists that blew up Pan Am 103 somehow learned about what the DEA was doing , infiltrated the undercover operation and substituted the bomb for the heroin in one of the DEA shipments . |
| 16 | The Maltese government has repeatedly denied allegations that the suitcase bomb that blew up flight 103 originated in Malta , travelling on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt and being transferred to the Pan Am flight . |
| 17 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 18 | by no means all of the large reptiles that are found in the Mesozoic rocks are dinosaurs — the reptile groups that took up life in the sea or the air were only distantly related . |
| 19 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 20 | The team was chosen so far ahead that the monumental Rangers defender George Young was omitted because of an injury that cleared up weeks before the team left Scotland . |
| 21 | But in a reply that summed up Ally McLeod 's capacity for humorous catastrophe the manager responded by saying , ‘ I told him several of our players smoke and it would be untruthful to back an anti-smoking campaign . ’ |
| 22 | I watched for the gas station on Harvey 's map and turned off on to an unmade road that kicked up stones against the underside of the Rambler and laid a film of dust across the tinted windscreen . |
| 23 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
| 24 | It is said that Sun 's SunSelect , the unit that picked up WABI when it acquired Norwood , Massachusetts-based Praxsys Technologies Inc , has already received a letter from Microsoft complaining that WABI violates its intellectual property rights . |
| 25 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 26 | Third , a federal provision gives tax credits to firms that set up manufacturing operations in US possessions , most notably Puerto Rico . |