Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 2 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 3 | I run up the open wooden steps to the office to ask the price of a self-catering suite . |
| 4 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 5 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 6 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 7 | Clearly some rulers and ministers were being affected in the second half of the century by the complex and often conflicting currents which made up the great intellectual movement of the Enlightenment ( see Chap . |
| 8 | Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust . |
| 9 | These trends and interrelationships can be illustrated most effectively by reference to the zone level of the Functional Regions framework , particularly the contrast between the Cores and Rings which make up the Daily Urban Systems of the 228 Functional Regions in Britain . |
| 10 | The Charters agreed by the Allied Powers which set up the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo and the judgments of those Tribunals made it clear that everyone , from the lowest private soldier to the highest general and statesman is required to comply with the humanitarian spirit and the generally accepted principles of the laws of war . |
| 11 | J. T. Abbott , the Divisional Organiser , resigned from the Party and formed a Unity Committee which set up the Independent Socialist Party in May 1934 . |
| 12 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 13 | PA chief executive Clive Bradley warned the a.g.m. that agreement between American and British publishers which divide up the Continental European market between different suppliers ( typically , particularly in relation to works of fiction , when British publishers enter into rights agreements with American publishers , the British publisher obtains exclusive rights for the UK and Ireland , the American publisher secures exclusive rights for the United States , and they both have open market or non-exclusive rights for Continental Europe ) could leave British publishers vulnerable to the importation of American books . |
| 14 | CIOB members , who make up the single biggest group of professional visitors to Interbuild , are to be offered complimentary Select Gold membership at the show . |
| 15 | The three women who made up the much-admired Daily Mirror Reader Service , introduced in 1944 but cut by Maxwell ( on New Year 's Eve 1985 , the same day as Pilger himself had been ‘ purged ’ , as he put it ) , would come en masse , providing an unmatchable advice forum for the paper 's buyers . |
| 16 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 17 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 18 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 19 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 20 | She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient . |
| 21 | a curtain , as you pass up the dark mild street , |
| 22 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 23 | Losing your erection is easy enough if you store up the right anti-erotic thoughts . |
| 24 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 25 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 26 | Nkumbula 's lack of vigour in attacking the Federation , once established , and in supporting participation in the elections for the Legislative Council in 1958 led to the breakaway from the ANC of Kaunda , Simon Kapwepwe and others who set up the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) in 1959 . |
| 27 | His father was a French army officer who set up the Moroccan secret service for the king . |
| 28 | Passing the imposing facade of Ixmar 's wife Aufiria 's fane , she hurried up the wide paved road that led to Candlegate , a rich area where she would find the De Belving estate . |
| 29 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 30 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |