Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confused by her rebellious attitude , David himself had cleaned up the kitchen behind his stepfather , and so the pattern was set . |
| 2 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 3 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 4 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 5 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 6 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 7 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 8 | In other words it chooses to move up the Phillips curve from point A to a point such as point B which corresponds to its new perception of the ‘ optimal ’ unemployment inflation pair . |
| 9 | The other major difference from the straightforward version is that the variable LR now stores a list of all rules which helped to set up the current state . |
| 10 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
| 11 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 12 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 14 | It was the old Therese , the happy , extrovert Therese , the golden girl who had lit up the stage of the Volksoper . |
| 15 | If on return you wish to follow up the complaint , forward a copy of this report to us not later than 28 days after the end of your holiday , amplified by a cover letter stating your preferred solution . |
| 16 | This season of exhibitions promises a unique and long awaited opportunity to address , at first hand , the current concerns and practices of the women artists who have picked up the gauntlet of the conventional ‘ feminism versus modernism ’ polarisation . |
| 17 | The welfare point is a little complicated , because of course you have to catch up the dogs , and many of those dogs will be killed , but the dogs can be treated well during the time they are held . |
| 18 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 19 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 20 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 21 | This committee , made up of government representatives , was sometimes grandiosely referred to as the ‘ Spaak II Committee ’ ( after the body which had drawn up the Rome Treaties in the 1950s ) . |
| 22 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 23 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 24 | Those members of the catholic population who sought to advance up the class structure had to adjust to more marginal roles among the professional classes . |
| 25 | At this point you have to set up the machines CMOS memory for the new drive . |
| 26 | The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee . |
| 27 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 28 | The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair . |
| 29 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 30 | Oh well you can keep it in case we need to screw up the roof again then . |