Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 2 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 3 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 4 | The Nottinghamshire opening partnership of left handers kept up the pressure on a shaky Worcestershire attack . |
| 5 | Facing this triangular space , created for the benefit of traders , the abbot divided up the land on either side into a series of narrow plots on which traders and others were encouraged to settle permanently , building their houses with timber and other materials provided by him . |
| 6 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 7 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 8 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 9 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 10 | Waringstown kept up the pressure on leaders Lisburn with a 45-run win over Woodvale at Ballygomartin Road on Saturday . |
| 11 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 12 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 13 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
| 14 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |