Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 2 | The town 's smaller churches had either already disappeared by 1461 ( All Saints ' beyond the Bridge , St. Mary Bynwerk and St. Michael at Cornstall ) , or they continued up until the mid-sixteenth century ( St. Stephen , St. Andrew , St. Peter and St. Clement ) . |
| 3 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 4 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 5 | That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’ |
| 6 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 7 | Expenditures , er some of the the er higher amounts are printing at ninety pounds fifty , cons conference fees at sixty pounds , er Euro Election er donation of twenty five pounds , photocopies of forty pounds , er bank charges Which er was a point that I took up with the bank erm Mr Chairman last December . |
| 8 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 9 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 10 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |
| 11 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 12 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 13 | When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea . |
| 14 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
| 15 | Well , I think you 're you 're putting your finger on the issue that we brought up at the very beginning about this man in the churchyard . |
| 16 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 17 | ‘ Dominic had left his AA card at home — we had a bit of a row about that — so we gave up on the car and decided to go out for a meal . |
| 18 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 19 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 20 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
| 21 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 22 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 23 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 24 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 25 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 26 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 27 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 28 | ‘ So it came up with the idea of an amnesty on illegal weapons . ’ |
| 29 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 30 | As in Protevangelium ; And I looked up into the pole of the heavens and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion … |