Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was there I climbed up the suspension cables to the top of the mainland tower and looked around . |
| 2 | I went up the stone steps into the street , and let myself into the house . |
| 3 | Like bony fish , they have lateral line organs which pick up the water movements made by prey . |
| 4 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 5 | The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings . |
| 6 | Rhyolites are pale grey or buff-coloured rocks with a micro-crystalline structure and a rather distinctive sugary texture or ‘ feel ’ — like obsidian , they usually have a well-developed banding running through them , which shows up the flow folds in the lava plainly . |
| 7 | Dr Newton , Harwell 's deputy head of biomedical research must give regular samples for analysis , as does his fellow volunteer , Eric Voice , along with regular sessions under this detector which picks up the gamma rays given off by the plutonium . |
| 8 | Dr Newton , Harwell 's deputy head of biomedical research must give regular samples for analysis , as does his fellow volunteer , Eric Voice , along with regular sessions under this detector which picks up the gamma rays given off by the plutonium . |
| 9 | If you wanted somebody to blow up the ANC offices , then Dirk Coetzee would do it . |
| 10 | There have been no problems with the hydraulic tilt , which jacks up the carriage bodies as the train rounds a bend . |
| 11 | You pick up the warning signs from the news and so on before you get the official warning to go , but it 's still short notice . |
| 12 | Instead information is being collected on the background and activities of all the members of a number of the quasi-groups who make up the core fans . |
| 13 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 14 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 15 | She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner . |
| 16 | Explain to your secretary what you are doing as you fill up the waste bins . |
| 17 | Had they failed , Martin and his men — i.e. those who dreamt up the match schedules — would have had enough egg on their faces for a thousand omelettes . |
| 18 | ‘ On finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes ’ |
| 19 | Two years later , on finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes . |
| 20 | She washed up the lunch things and looked into the fridge . |
| 21 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 22 | There have been great deeds in Barcelona , like that eighth athletics gold for Carl Lewis , the hurdles world record by Kevin Young , the three Kenyans who swept up the steeplechase medals . |
| 23 | Barry Lloyd , who set up the Gulf Families Association , and still counsels soldiers and their families , says he was the victim of a smear campaign . |
| 24 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 25 | One holds up the east-west streets . |
| 26 | I think we should make sure we sweep up the Selby drawings because they do include some fairly good stuff . |
| 27 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 28 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 29 | It 's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again . |
| 30 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |