Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 2 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 3 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 4 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 5 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 6 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 7 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 8 | The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe . |
| 9 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 10 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 11 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 12 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 13 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 14 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 15 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 16 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 17 | The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s . |
| 18 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 19 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 20 | Rachel followed a squealing Belinda down the steps while David walked up to the deep end , dived in and swam back to join the rest of the group . |
| 21 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 22 | In the river-bed , islands of rock stuck up above the imaginary water level . |
| 23 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 24 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 25 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 26 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 27 | This is the area to the north of St Paul 's Cathedral , where there is a 1950s development , which he described as ‘ the prototype for all the windswept urban squares dreamt up in the fifties and sixties ’ that amounted to ‘ the rape of Britain ’ . |
| 28 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 29 | Xanthe stood up in the narrow space between the bed and the door in Miranda 's room , and said , ‘ You look rather ‘ beatnik ’ . |
| 30 | The SSL holds a core collection of material covering scientific and technical aspects backed up by the National Library 's other relevant collections such as official publications , legislation , and popular science items . |