Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 2 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 3 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 4 | Dougal levered up the rectangle of hardwood . |
| 5 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 6 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 7 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 8 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 9 | He turned his head and spat , then buckled and retched up a thin stream of vomit . |
| 10 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 11 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 12 | Jess could n't see except when the birds rose up an instant only to fall back , this time with Damocles mounted and digging in his spurs . |
| 13 | In the 1770s a wing was added at the back , and once again the house rose up the social scale . |
| 14 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 15 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 16 | Thus , their solicitor drew up a document detailing joint responsibility for communal maintenance of roofs , courtyards and external paintwork . |
| 17 | The liberals , for their part , drew up a petition asking King Fahd for a consultative assembly , modernisation of the legal system and controls on the mutawa . |
| 18 | Buick also sorted out its muddled product line and drew up a marketing plan that helped it sidestep the most intensely competitive part of the American market . |
| 19 | Mr Browning drew up a chair for her , as nice as could be , and sat down himself . |
| 20 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 21 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 22 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 23 | The entire ZTT organisation drew up a blueprint for world domination which was a product of the desire to change the pop star syndrome . |
| 24 | The League drew up a scale of reductions whereby players on £5 a week ( the maximum ) took a 15 per cent cut and these on £3–4 a 5 per cent cut , the money saved going into a fund to help clubs in financial straits . |
| 25 | From all this information the team drew up a matrix of crafts , materials and local resources , analysed technologies applied locally and attempted to order skills development in level of difficulty and in relation to social custom as a preliminary to curriculum design . |
| 26 | ELISABETH LUARD DREW UP A CHAIR |
| 27 | Wills , drew up a religious curriculum for Taunton School . |
| 28 | We quickly drew up a children 's broadcasting legend hitlist . |
| 29 | At the time of the last election , he and Douglas Hurd , then the Home Secretary , drew up a list of the jobs they would seek not to do after the election . |
| 30 | The Champagne houses were naturally outraged at the government 's ineptitude and drew up a vociferous protest , signed by eighty participants , condemning the publicity given to the ministerial communiqué . |