Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 2 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 3 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 4 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 5 | Once you have obtained the correct parts check to see whether the mounting screw holes line up with the old holes . |
| 6 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 7 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 8 | He 'd drawn up outside the old town house , cut the engine . |
| 9 | The conference theme ‘ A Better Mousetrap ’ , ties in with the centenary of crime novelist Agatha Christie , who turned up at The Old Swan after her own mysterious disappearance , and the titles of some of the papers will reflect the investigation , detection and arrest of some villains that threaten our property , our health or our lives . |
| 10 | The highway , which links up with the old road south of Charikar , avoids mujahedin territory and and passes through a region where the Kabul regime has concluded deals with local guerrilla commanders . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a damn good job you do n't , laddie , or I could see you being hauled up before the old man . ’ |
| 12 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't always keep up with the old bugger , but I 'm never far behind . ’ |
| 14 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 15 | Yesterday saw the first meeting of North Essex Health Authority , which replaces the consortium made up of the old north east , mid and west Essex district health authorities . |
| 16 | Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions . |
| 17 | Tomorrow we 'll test the strings we 've made , and see how they measure up against the old ones for reliability . |
| 18 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 19 | He stopped , staring up at the old man , his face filled with an intent curiosity . |
| 20 | Kim stood there a moment longer , staring up at the old man . |
| 21 | Fig. 126 shows the pediment as it was set up in the old museum , an arrangement that is certainly wrong . |
| 22 | The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . " |
| 23 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you start , ’ she warned , glancing up at the old clock above the shelves . |
| 25 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 26 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 27 | Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal . |
| 28 | But later — in the morning , when he could put up with the old boy 's fussing . |
| 29 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 30 | Marian sat back on her heels and smiled up into the old woman 's face . |