Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 3 | With the deaths of Parent and Brassey in 1870 Buddicom wound up the partnership . |
| 4 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 5 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 6 | Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly brought up the rear . |
| 7 | Some of the discipline went out of the play , but as others tired Jess picked up the pace of the game and finished looking as likely as match-winner as anyone . |
| 8 | But in 1908 Edison set up the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ) , which included among its aims an increase in the share of the US market taken by domestic productions . |
| 9 | After that Jack gave up the skiing altogether and I took it very steady . |
| 10 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 11 | Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides . |
| 12 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 13 | From 1624 to 1640 Dutton bought up the land round Sherborne Park in order to create a deer park , to be enclosed by a high wall . |
| 14 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |