Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 2 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 3 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |
| 4 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 5 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 6 | Anabelle watched from under the gate while the boy snatched up the huge bowl and dashed into the house . |
| 7 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 8 | He made a dash for the table , snatched up the boiled egg and stuffed it into his pocket . |
| 9 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 10 | Julie snatched up the heavy skillet and swung it with all her strength . |
| 11 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 12 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 13 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 14 | So our policies are designed to strengthen communities , tackle crime and poverty , build up the common wealth and improve the shared quality of life . |
| 15 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 16 | For toning up the whole body and increasing your stamina , swimming and running are both excellent . |
| 17 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 18 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 19 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 20 | She placed the receiver down and reached to the table top , picking up the silenced gun and holding it gently in both hands . |
| 21 | Now , as the cold winds blow in New England , our transatlantic chums in Citizens seem to be doing a repeat act , picking up the odd dime or at least two Five Cents , Plymouth Five Cents and Boston Five Cents . |
| 22 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 23 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 24 | She withdrew fifty millilitres of completely unnecessary blood from the patient 's arm , filled up the appropriate bottles and then put a blob on the treated strip and glanced at her watch . |
| 25 | Before this the tree roots held the soil in place by soaking up the heavy rain and letting it go slowly . |
| 26 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 27 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 28 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 29 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 30 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |