Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 2 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
| 3 | Incest was another area which pointed up the growing convergence of opinion between purists , women 's groups , the police and the Home Office . |
| 4 | THE Japanese tycoon who dreamt up the Sony Walkman has been awarded an honorary knighthood . |
| 5 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 6 | The second time she picked up the lure and pulled up clumsily on my fist . |
| 7 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |
| 8 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 9 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 10 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 11 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 12 | On our first day we sweated up the short scree slope to the foot of Middlefell Buttress , where our threesome roped up sound hemp . |
| 13 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the only reason you kept up the pretence ? ’ |
| 15 | Concerned about its lack of a voice in local radio , the Federal Government has now decided to reverse the policy of the previous military regime which broke up the NBC in 1978 . |
| 16 | At the same time it set up the Seiji Togo Memorial Museum , which now occupies the forty-second floor of the spectacular headquarters tower in Tokyo , and houses pictures by Chagall , Gauguin , Picasso , Renoir and Grandma Moses . |
| 17 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 18 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 19 | If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon . |
| 20 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 21 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 22 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 23 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 24 | Next morning I cleaned up the vomit and got myself ready for school but I still had a nasty taste in my mouth and I was hot and achey . |