Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the story " in BNC.
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1 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
2 | Dave takes up the story . |
3 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
4 | Lord Home takes up the story : |
5 | Randy takes up the story … |
6 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
7 | Northampton chief executive , Steve Coverdale , takes up the story : ‘ Paul , like all the Staffordshire bowlers , had some pretty horrendous figures . |
8 | Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business . |
9 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
10 | John Burns takes up the story : ‘ The green is long and narrow and the approach shot has to be perfect . |
11 | He takes up the story : |
12 | The video takes up the story of two of the characters from A Weekend Away whom we now meet on holiday on the south coast of England . |
13 | Dan Knight takes up the story ‘ We were somewhere over Germany on the way to Berlin , flak was very heavy . |
14 | Dan again takes up the story . |
15 | Sydney Newman takes up the story : |
16 | Thorning takes up the story . |
17 | Dianne Gregory , UK credit manager , takes up the story : ‘ When we met with Graydon we were facing a challenge common to most credit managers — how to analyse the risk on our sales ledgers and enable our credit controllers to focus their efforts most effectively . |
18 | Colin takes up the story : ‘ I was busy making the display cases at home , whilst John made inquiries regarding tables we could use . |
19 | Tim takes up the story thus far . |
20 | Phil now takes up the story . |
21 | Peter Dew takes up the story : ‘ Throughout the weekend we worked in our teams to complete a whole range of physical and mental challenges from negotiating the longest assault course in Britain , going on night manoeuvres to rifle shooting . |
22 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
23 | OUR SOCIETY was formed in 1952 and Andy ( Eileen Anderson ) takes up the story : ‘ The very beginning was in the train returning from the 1950 Summer course held at the Medau Schule in Flensburg . |
24 | Ashley 's mother Jeanette takes up the story : |
25 | The son of the present owner takes up the story . ’ |
26 | The player himself takes up the story . |
27 | Her subsequent letter to the Managing Director of ICI Paints [ Thailand ] takes up the story : |
28 | Gus Dudgeon , who produced ‘ Space Oddity ’ in the end , picks up the story . |
29 | John Ward picks up the story … |
30 | This book picks up the story from there , although it is written by a different author . |