Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not strange at all , of course , in economic terms , since the slacks and Pringle jumper brigade who make up the bulk of business in summer would n't take the Austin Maxi out of the car-port if there was even a remote chance of frost . |
| 2 | It was Dr. Joseph Thackeray , the newly appointed physician to the infirmary who took up the burden . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he also sub-divided these manifold elites into a governing elite , composed of all leaders who directly or indirectly play a part in ruling the society , and a non-governing elite who make up the remainder of the elites ( 1935 , vol. 3 , pp. 1422 — 4 ) . |
| 6 | Thus , they reckon , a director who weighs up the burden of meeting interest charges , and still opts for a big loan , has got to feel assured of success . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As I told the board before their meeting with the Receiver , the blame lies solely with the person who dreamt up the idea , namely Chester Bence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sometimes it appeared that the police and the media were christening subsequent sex beasts as variants of The Fox , while , much more rarely , on other occasions it seemed to be the offender who took up the mantle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Brian George from Henley in Oxfordshire was the man who thought up the idea of the fraud . |
| 15 | Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian . |
| 16 | Robert Townsend , the Avis man who wrote Up the organization , dismissed such schemes as gimmicks . |
| 17 | And the Great Panjandrum of this extraordinary enterprise — the man who dreamt up the task force , who drives its proceedings , and who keeps President Bill Clinton informed about its deliberations — is a student-radical-turned-management-consultant , Ira Magaziner . |
| 18 | If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon . |
| 19 | Are you the man who put up the money to buy it ? ’ |
| 20 | The stooge who set up the question was a local Free Presbyterian elder ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Look at Ben Hogan , a legend and a perfectionist who gave up the game when he was struck down by the dreaded ‘ yips ’ . |
| 23 | The couple who took up the challenge have no grandchildren of their own . |