Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Craig was shot dead in 1988 in an East Belfast pub on the orders of a new hardline leadership out to clean up the gang 's image .
2 ‘ Coming for a ride out to pick up the kids ? ’
3 ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’
4 I let Brownie out went up the back and there was Brownie in the Malone River then he saw me so no lead with me
5 Then we would fling ourselves upon each other at all hours of the day and night make love upon the unmade bed , for often we refused to let the maid in to make up the room :
6 He put his hands out to take up the carving knife and fork and Amy Hall murmured something to her neighbour about Arthur always having wanted to be a surgeon really .
7 erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm
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