Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 2 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 3 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 4 | My aunt looked up the records and told me about her . |
| 5 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 6 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 7 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 8 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 9 | The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her . |
| 10 | The next two hours were hectic , the Rose Bowl 's new owner struggling alone with the lunchtime rush while her assistant made up the orders that should have been done earlier . |
| 11 | Her dress fastened up the front and she began to undo the buttons . |
| 12 | There was a long silence in which Steve weighed up the situation before speaking . |
| 13 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 14 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 15 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 16 | My father was one of them , and when ‘ Buddy Can You Spare a Dime ? ’ topped what was then the hit parade , its lyrics summed up the poverty , dependence and despair of the millions of poor throughout the world . |
| 17 | The claim is disputed … but it 's still a good excuse for a ballooning festival.So the lawns of the Chase Hotel were busy this evening as the fist arrivals for the weekend event prepared for their ascent.We took up the offer of a flight with Ian Ashpole , who told us he planned to jump out of the balloon when we reached full height : |
| 18 | Cantona , whose hat-trick lit up the Charity Shield at Wembley , had to be lectured by Wilkinson on the virtues of integrating into the English game . |
| 19 | Several Trade Unions agreed to support the Communist application , among them the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , whose votes made up the bulk of those recorded for Communist affiliation at the Edinburgh Conference of the Labour Party . |
| 20 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 21 | To the general surprise , the March — it was worked on by Harvey Postlethwaite , now at Ferrari and one of a handful of the really bright ones — proved an effective foil for Hunt 's driving style : Hunt qualified ninth and was running sixth when his engine gave up the ghost . |
| 22 | The commander , above , and his crew raced up the Rock of Gibraltar to help Janet 's Team-Up appeal . |
| 23 | His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband . |
| 24 | Rodgers and his wife built up the collection without the aid of a professional adviser , purchasing from dealers and at auction . |
| 25 | Once he was over the edge of extreme fatigue his brain drank up the language by the pint . |
| 26 | In writing with this frankly propagandist aim — to focus on Jesus Christ — the disciple was bring faithful to the remarkable way in which his Master summed up the purpose of all Scripture . |
| 27 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 28 | The rest of his party brought up the rear , baiting and goading Ranulf , who gave as good as he got with a stream of obscene English oaths . |
| 29 | In Parma , as in all other towns and cities in Italy , there were a number of case di tolleranza , brothels recognized by the authorities , in which the girls were subject to regular medical examinations , and three of the boys in our class plucked up the courage to visit one of these on the way home from school one evening . |