Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you know to check it and go back and do it differently and it 's the same with this moved up a level now , that you you keep in keep in charge of it . |
| 2 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 3 | This opened up a four-shot lead but at the 5th Greg hit a bad second shot and chipped up , missed the putt and dropped back to three ahead . |
| 4 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 5 | For the first time this opened up an honest discussion of feelings , and started the process of constructing a new pattern of interaction . |
| 6 | This opened up an interesting line of enquiry . |
| 7 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 8 | And he half hopped and half flew up the rough beach , stopping frequently to see that she was following , until with a final struggle they got back to safe rocks along the cliffs over the tideline . |
| 9 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 10 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 11 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 12 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 13 | In desperation the British gave up the Palestinian mandate in May 1948 , while trying to rescue what they could of their relationship with the Arabs . |
| 14 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 15 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 16 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 17 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 18 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |
| 19 | This held up the whole meeting and finally it was decided to postpone the event for over an hour , so we all left the track . |
| 20 | On becoming choirmaster at south Hackney parish church ( 1872–5 ) Hunt gathered the support of leading organists in London and in 1872 set up an independent institution to provide better training for church musicians . |
| 21 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 22 | This set up a national Poor Law Commission to superintend the system , and formed the parishes into groups known as poor law unions . |
| 23 | This set up an Audit Commission for local authorities in England and Wales . |
| 24 | This set up an Examinations Council , GCE Board and CSE Board in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | After considerable lobbying , the Television Act was passed in 1954 and this set up the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) to supervise a federal structure of commercially funded television companies , each serving a different region or market . |
| 26 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |
| 27 | This set up the next cycle by index arbitrageurs , and so on . |
| 28 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 29 | Rather , erm , one was in one position and then a second took up a different position . |
| 30 | We 've a big mechanical saw up the end there . |