Example sentences of "up [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 2 | Helen Guy of Castlemilk Housing Energy Action , set up to combat the high level of fuel debt in the area , described the anger and despair with which people had reacted to the decision to add VAT to their fuel bills . |
| 3 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 4 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 5 | The large sash windows open up to embrace the beautiful surrounding countryside . |
| 6 | He 'd most likely end up eating the grain he 'd nicked from Mrs Wright for the pheasants . |
| 7 | Up goes the axe . |
| 8 | Inspector comes in — up goes the radio to the ventilator out of sight . |
| 9 | A tap is turned , a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch applied to the piston , and up goes the end of the coach as easily as though it were a doll 's house . |
| 10 | Up goes the telescope , you 're lying there you know , and the doctor told me , he said , Do you wan na watch ? |
| 11 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 12 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 13 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 14 | All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest ! |
| 15 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 16 | He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail . |
| 17 | He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him . |
| 18 | Are you staying up to see the New Year in ? ’ |
| 19 | He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face . |
| 20 | I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored . |
| 21 | But no one looked up to see the dead man hanging from a branch near the top of the 30ft conifer , said police . |
| 22 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 23 | And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right . |
| 24 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 25 | One Sunday my dad took us all up to see the new pit-head baths . |
| 26 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 27 | We looked up to see the tree limbs rippling with leather and fur . |
| 28 | I get far enough up to see the house and identify it by its position and the garden furniture , then I climb back down , go to the wall and jump up , catching hold of the concrete ridge tiles on top of the wall and pulling myself up . |
| 29 | The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat . |
| 30 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |