Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 2 | The second time she picked up the lure and pulled up clumsily on my fist . |
| 3 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 4 | On our first day we sweated up the short scree slope to the foot of Middlefell Buttress , where our threesome roped up sound hemp . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's the only reason you kept up the pretence ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 8 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 9 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |