Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The states which made it up can be classified in several ways , but there is much to be said for distinguishing European states which had already existed in 1815 from those which had come into existence later . |
| 2 | The theory must have sounded wonderful to the think-tankers who dreamed it up . |
| 3 | The brothers who beat him up are involved in the drugs racket . |
| 4 | It was only when daylight came , overcome by exhaustion , hunger and the cold they gave themselves up . |
| 5 | Ian Murdoch of the receivers , KPMG Peat Marwick , said : ‘ It is always satisfying when a quality company is saved and particularly when it is sold to the management who built it up . ’ |
| 6 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |
| 7 | The narrator Michael , an elderly bachelor living in genteel poverty , describes his ‘ castle in the air ’ ; in it he has married Christiana , the girl who gave him up when he was disinherited , while John Spatter , who cheated him out of his business , remains his friend and partner . |
| 8 | I know that the bloke who tucked you up will get off with it scot free . |
| 9 | There were some men in the bar who eyed her up , who had eyed Gloria . |
| 10 | Even with so many miles under its belt the injected 108bhp engine is never truly competitively smooth and quiet , but this young engine was quite intolerable , its overall lack of refinement evident the moment you fired it up . |
| 11 | He deserves the credit as does every member of the team who got us up . |
| 12 | Fred said , ‘ The only other time he ever ordered it was the night you rang us up in Leeds to say you 'd got the house and we could move in by the week we were spliced . ’ |
| 13 | Other countries will smell British self-interest in these directives , and not just because Sir Leon Brittan is the commissioner who dreamed them up . |
| 14 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 15 | There is no need to tell everyone all the details , any more than Peter makes any mention or testimony in his letters about the day he messed it up . |
| 16 | If he had the chance he picked her up in his sturdy little arms and kissed her downy head the way he saw his father do when he thought no one was looking . |
| 17 | Described by the studio 's publicist-turned-producer Monja Danischewsky as ‘ the Nanny who brought us up , ’ Cavalcanti helped Ealing 's filmmakers to develop the semi-documentary style of films such as San Demetrio London ( 1943 ) , which recounts the true story of a group of sailors bringing a wrecked oil tanker back to port . |
| 18 | And this one has definitely lasted longer than the people who thought it up . |
| 19 | We could look for the people who put him up to it . |
| 20 | You know the people who rang me up to say hey sixteen thousand on nine over five years ? |
| 21 | When one rolled along the ground he picked it up and stood it on its end to stop it rolling . |
| 22 | Eventually she did fall asleep and at about three o'clock in the morning I woke her up . |
| 23 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 24 | The tight wool mini just wider than the belt which held it up , ended where the ripped black tights began . |
| 25 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
| 26 | And that was when we came , and we started hay-making along there to the man-killers we called him , of course there 's a better picture here and I 've got it here along with the man-killer we caught it up , and we 've got someone coming along behind . |
| 27 | Just twelve chapters later we hear them saying to Aaron , ‘ Up , make us gods , who shall go before us ; as for this Moses , the man who brought us up out of Egypt , we do not know what has become of him . ’ |
| 28 | There was no sign of tenderness in the man who tossed her up into the saddle the next morning , but , seeing him now in the full light of day , Isabel was forced to concede that he was still handsome . |
| 29 | And what he wants to exorcise are his bad feelings about the man who brung him up . |
| 30 | ‘ Wonder how the hell they got anything up from there . ’ |