Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 2 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 3 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |
| 4 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 5 | The smelt mills had long flues that in some cases snaked up the hillside and across the fell . |
| 6 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 7 | This aircraft gave up the crew without any major injuries . |
| 8 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 9 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 10 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 11 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 12 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 13 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 14 | On the other side of the road , a sign nailed to a wooden stump pointed up the escarpment and read , ‘ In Salah ’ . |
| 15 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 16 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 17 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 18 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |
| 19 | The old men started up the music and the eunuchs began to dance . |
| 20 | Another hand snaked up the chest and pinched tight on a nipple . |
| 21 | One back-bench MP summed up the mood of the Scottish parliamentary party , saying : ‘ If he does n't make the grade by the end of the year then there 's no way I 'd vote for him again . |
| 22 | As the mouldboards lifted and inverted the soil , the tines on the powered rotors broke up the furrow slices . |
| 23 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 24 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 25 | Call for new inquiry into plane disaster : Marc Champion in Washington explains why some investigators suspect the US and Canadian governments hushed up the reasons for a 1985 plane crash |
| 26 | A hydraulic lift ran up the mansion 's four storeys . |
| 27 | Leroy Burrell , whose storming second leg set up the Yanks for their 37.40 seconds power show in the relay , commented : ‘ Carl is in better shape than anybody who came to Barcelona . |
| 28 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 29 | The influence of Central Office toned up the rest of the organization . |
| 30 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |