Example sentences of "up [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 2 | As you head up Wasdale the prominent , wedge-shaped peak of Yewbarrow ( 627m ) sweeps up from Wastwater and offers scramblers and competent walkers a challenging outing . |
| 3 | The AP man rushed up tot the Shah with a wire that announced : " Teheran : Mossadeq overthrown . |
| 4 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 5 | and I went with her last week , then she had to go again on Monday , but she went Saturday as well , then she had to go back up Monday the last , so she has n't been have n't seen her since I 've been gon na go up all week but the weather |
| 6 | We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for , oh it was I was looking for your blouse |
| 7 | Tucked up tor the night on a long-haul flight . |
| 8 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 9 | If you have a look at the sheet you can see there are six sections and then on the right hand side there are two columns , one is headed up pupil the other is headed up teacher . |
| 10 | It was already up $3 the day after the announcement , giving KKR investors an immediate paper gain of $70m . |
| 11 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 12 | Maybe Billy himself set up Freddie the Lion to clear out the opposition in his own chosen patch . |
| 13 | The next stop was Butterfield , where they picked up Morton the embalmer . |
| 14 | HOLT ‘ S Farnborough staff brushed aside all opposition in a Royal Scottish Assurance leaders referral competition — and ended up £500 the richer ! |
| 15 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 16 | This may well seem to be the most efficient way of utilising office time but when it comes to weighing up effectiveness the pro-forma is a non-starter as parents are antagonised by this bureaucratic and impersonal style of communication . |
| 17 | The Egyptian theme was taken up y the caterers — dressed in costumes designed for last sumnmer 's Earl 's Court production of ’ Aida ’ . |
| 18 | Then , because the battery 's used up energy the motor of the car turns the alternator |
| 19 | Bean bags , cloth or woollen balls can all be used and at clearing up time the various balls can be sorted . |