Example sentences of "[vb past] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 2 | As the cricket world reeled at yesterday 's shock news that Gooch 's 16-year marriage to wife Brenda has broken up , Test and county chiefs expressed their amazement — and drew up contingency plans . |
| 3 | As a precaution it drew up contingency plans in May 1946 in case the loan was rejected by the US Congress , plans which included a list of significant import cuts . |
| 4 | But Gloucester went on the rampage … as Number 8 Bobby Fowke and scrum half Marcus Hanniford lined up twin tries against the quins . |
| 5 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 6 | When he was twelve , his father found a better post in Liverpool , and the family moved up north . |
| 7 | Remember those heady days not so long ago when 800 journalists packed into the ballroom at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to see King and Tyson before the disgraced champion beat up Razor Ruddock for the second time ? |
| 8 | Father ‘ beat up prisoner in jail ’ |
| 9 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 10 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 11 | The robot business began to look brighter as we built up experience in putting the machines to work . |
| 12 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |
| 13 | There were layers of Gaily 's patience , built up grain by grain over the years like geological strata . |
| 14 | In general Golding built up Piggy 's character by only stressing his bad points , so that Piggy could get full sympathy from the reader . |
| 15 | This built up finance , but , perhaps more importantly , built up in the community a knowledge of the organisation and about deafness . |
| 16 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 17 | They used up space in the vans , required time to unload and ultimately made the shops look messy . |
| 18 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 19 | From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures . |
| 20 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 21 | The French were restless , and Joan of Arc stirred up patriotism and led a revolt against the reign of King Henry VI . |
| 22 | Aung San 's courage and leadership were shown again in January 1947 , when his political opponents , including the Communists , stirred up agitation against the London Agreement before Aung San had time to get back to Burma and explain the facts . |
| 23 | In every way possible preachers and troubadours stirred up enthusiasm . |
| 24 | Instead , the Armada sailed up channel and the watchers at Rame , including Carew , could view the first engagement of battle early that Sunday morning off Plymouth , with the first galleon exploding . |
| 25 | ‘ Alain has gone to visit Claudine 's parents , ’ Marguerite informed her as she dished up breakfast . |
| 26 | I said I added up Whisky , added up wine , nothing in , but they they watch you . |
| 27 | I said I added up Whisky , added up wine , nothing in , but they they watch you . |
| 28 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 29 | If things went wrong , she would be blamed , and her career as a detective — the career she had fought for so tenaciously , against the depredations of her husband , against male prejudice , against policemen who drove up back alleys on patrol when she was a constable and groped for a kiss — that career might crumble to dust . |
| 30 | The heavier load of accessories and metal trim drove up petrol consumption : from twenty miles per gallon the average dropped to fifteen and below . |