Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 2 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 3 | Nearby , little boys were playing with brightly coloured diamond-shaped kites which they flew up into the warm evening breeze . |
| 4 | He dwelt on the " great historic victory " of 1989 , which he summed up as the " three great victories " : suppression of the counter-revolutionary riot in June , rectification of economic order , and " a new favourable turn on the ideological and political front " . |
| 5 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 6 | This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls . |
| 7 | I think I 'll have a beer tonight Knock , give the jake a rest , ’ said Yanto ‘ Suit yourself , ’ Knocker replied , and drew off a pint of bitter , which he held up to the light . |
| 8 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 9 | The conference adopted a resolution which stated that " for the Slovene LC the 14th extraordinary congress of the LCY has ended , and the LCY , in the form which it had up to the congress , has ceased to exist " . |
| 10 | In addition , the strategic-line concept presupposed the availability of the Syrian line with which it linked up at the K3 pump station . |
| 11 | It 's something I picked up in the Trow . ’ |
| 12 | Her other recreation is playing the violin , something she took up at the age of 11 when she went on to become a member of the Preston Youth Orchestra . |
| 13 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 14 | Is that what you did up at the top of the |
| 15 | We 'll compare it with what we took up at the site . ’ |