Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'll have three rounds with each of these two men , ’ Trentham said as a reluctant instructor laced up the captain 's gloves . |
| 32 | Town and canton rose in importance after the early thirteenth century when the bridging of the Schollenen gorge opened up the Cotthard . |
| 33 | As he did so , the older man picked up the glasses which had been filled previously , and deliberately poured them over her head . |
| 34 | The orange river picked up the rejection letter and open cigarette packet in its path and floated them over onto X 's lap . |
| 35 | Even this far from the house , the air was permeated with the acrid stink of burning , but soon their sensitive canine smell-sense picked up the telltale odour of a man-thing . |
| 36 | A heavy squall drove up the meadow , bowing the trees before howling away up the mountain face . |
| 37 | As the cold winter gave way to early spring more shipping sailed up the Thames , bringing some extra work for the struggling rivermen , but there was still much unemployment in the riverside borough . |
| 38 | That incident pointed up the hostility between the two and that hostility reflects the political culture of Scotland . |
| 39 | The first try lit up the ground in the 23rd minute and followed two surging drives . |
| 40 | One layman summed up the feeling with the remark , ‘ If there were stolen goods anywhere on the premises , the Church must keep out of the matter . |
| 41 | Under the progressive system of construction it was , however , impossible to do this , and with a very few exceptions a shortage of any one part held up the whole of the line . |
| 42 | One ambulanceman summed up the mood as he threw his hands up in disgust and muttered : ‘ Absolute rubbish . |
| 43 | It proved the last straw for John Titford ; ill enough , no doubt , without the need to struggle against a winter to end all winters , his weary body gave up the ghost . |
| 44 | The 1991 White Paper on Higher Education flagged up the Government 's intention of linking quality assessment to decisions about funding Higher Education institutions . |
| 45 | The smell of roasting flesh drifted up the shaft . |
| 46 | The 26-year-old Frenchman kept up the punishment and barely 30 seconds after the opening bell Cook fell to the floor and was counted out . |
| 47 | One doctor summed up the change : ‘ We 've actually seen them for once ; they 've been out here visiting just to make sure that we are aware of their potential services . ’ |
| 48 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |
| 49 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 50 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 51 | That same agent blew up the room I had been in because I was getting too close . |
| 52 | His penetrating run set up the Palace equaliser in the 1990 cup semi-final against scouse . |
| 53 | Whatever Jenny was involved in at any given moment took up the whole of her . |
| 54 | The yellow genoa sped up the forestay , Trent switching sheets as the jib came down . |
| 55 | The very efficiency of any improvement speeded up the lowering of the land as the peat dried and ‘ wasted ’ through the activities of bacteria and fungi . |
| 56 | A tall hotel broke up the skyline of the night . |
| 57 | When a storm of rare violence blew up the mariners , being superstitious folk , cast lots to determine which of those on board was the cause of the evil , and the short straw , broken domino or queen of spades was drawn by Jonah . |
| 58 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 59 | The other man picked up the dressing gown lying on the end of the bed and threw it at Connelly . |
| 60 | Sure enough , the young Winger set up the equaliser with a ball to Beauchamp , who was tripped . |