Example sentences of "who [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 2 | in terms of , I mean Bill was the one who drafted up the |
| 3 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 4 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 5 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 6 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 7 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For a great many others , however , particularly those who made up the largely illiterate and religiously unsophisticated rural masses , it brought insufficient comfort and left them feeling powerless in the face of disaster . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was Helen who made up the spare room bed , in the end . |
| 19 | We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Only a small section of the labouring poor was wholly or permanently dependent on poor relief , predominantly the old , the sick and the orphaned who made up the " impotent " as opposed to the " able-bodied " . |
| 26 | He may have inherited some of his eccentricity from his father , Bernard , who built up a vast multi-national engineering company from scratch and then acquired a circus as a sideline , training his own Lippizaner stallions . |
| 27 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 28 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 29 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 30 | 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 . |