Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified .
2 On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter .
3 As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness .
4 I turned up the collar of my fake biker 's jacket and walked off .
5 Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill .
6 In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work .
7 I scrambled up the side-wall of the canyon and peeped over .
8 In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia .
9 I brought up the question of bans and proscriptions and Sinclair finally stated that no red flags or ‘ unauthorised ’ slogans will be permitted .
10 The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts .
11 ‘ To answer both questions I dreamed up the character of a man who is 764 years old ; who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance .
12 I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office .
13 I looked up the line of the torrent .
14 ‘ So — I kept up the pretence of believing you were using drugs , hoping you 'd accept having me around all the time in a bid to prove your own innocence . ’
15 I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully .
16 I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre .
17 Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ?
18 So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China .
19 I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood .
20 Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was .
21 At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles .
22 When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible .
23 But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives .
24 How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ?
25 The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene .
26 Both Holywood and Instonians use the Olympia synthetic pitch as home venues , which threw up the possibility of the games being played back-to-back on April 24 — but the Centre has been already booked for that date for a Celtic boys football tournament .
27 It was the Press which took up the cause of the miners when British Coal wanted to sack 30,000 of them .
28 Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes .
29 They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery .
30 was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think
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