Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On the other side of the road , a sign nailed to a wooden stump pointed up the escarpment and read , ‘ In Salah ’ . |
| 9 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 10 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |
| 11 | Another hand snaked up the chest and pinched tight on a nipple . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A hydraulic lift ran up the mansion 's four storeys . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The influence of Central Office toned up the rest of the organization . |
| 17 | A corn-coloured moon climbed up the sky outside the closed window and Tom turned off his lamp so that there was no competition for the warm moonlight . |
| 18 | The government White Paper issued as a prelude to the reorganisation of local government in England outlined the aims which a new system should incorporate : At the start of the next paragraph the White Paper summed up the problems inherent in this approach with a statement of the classic political dilemma : ‘ Practical realities prevent all these aims being fully achieved together ’ ( DOE 1971:6 ) . |
| 19 | The daily national press took up the cause of sport with a vengeance . |
| 20 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 21 | A loud explosion echoed up the hillside . |
| 22 | An anonymous Anglican critic summed up the vitality and confidence of the ministry by the end of the century . |
| 23 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 24 | There were several work-benches holding tools and various pieces of covered work , while shelving , tall cupboards and a low , flat sink took up the rest of the wall space . |
| 25 | Then a fountain-pen needle stitched up the lips of the wound in a neat blue herringbone pattern . |
| 26 | The Black Report summed up the position as follows : ‘ Among 1–4 year olds … almost all the differences in mortality rate between social class I and V are due to : accidents , poisoning and violence ; respiratory disease ; and congenital abnormalities. , – During late childhood ( 5–14 years ) accidents rather than illness are the major cause of death . |
| 27 | We shall be given all manner of reasons why there should not be a top salary review , or whatever it is called since the former Prime Minister tore up the negotiating arrangements for the civil service . |
| 28 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 29 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 30 | It was dark outside and The Fat Controller pulled up the velvet collar of his overcoat . |