Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 2 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 3 | PAMELA : As it is your will and you have determined , it is my duty to yield up the point . |
| 4 | I helped my dad clear up the house — he 's very good at that . |
| 5 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 6 | With its horn blaring and its lights flashing , the bus had left its route to take up the chase . |
| 7 | The drawback , inevitably , is that everything is dependent upon the existence of a CAB in the area , its willingness to set up the scheme , and the co-operation of the local profession . |
| 8 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 9 | Ruth moaned as she staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone . |
| 10 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 11 | Every major road out of the centre had its tramway running up the centre of a dual carriageway . |
| 12 | The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her . |
| 13 | Its title sums up the attitude of many people to what is an essential feature of working life — namely , meetings . |
| 14 | Jordan temporarily closes its border to hold up the influx of refugees . |
| 15 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 16 | The age at which parents want their baby to give up the breast or bottle varies markedly . |
| 17 | your mum 's got her fanny stuck up the exhaust of it . |
| 18 | ‘ I think ’ , he says , ‘ that the Germans had convinced themselves that there was something noble in their quest to clean up the world . |
| 19 | Her dress fastened up the front and she began to undo the buttons . |
| 20 | When one of the firm 's 600 taxis passes within 600 metres , its receiver picks up the code , stores it in memory , and simultaneously relays it back to base . |
| 21 | Still to come : the Royal Pioneers from Bicester are on their way to back up the Desert Rats in the Gulf . |
| 22 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 23 | She moved her torso without breaking the union , and stretched her arm to pick up the phone . |
| 24 | Thus , when Remedios the Beauty disappears , the narrative records the fact that outsiders were of the opinion that she had run off with a man and that the story of her ascent into heaven was an invention of her family to cover up the scandal . |
| 25 | Her father held her tightly until her eyes began to close and from far away she heard her mother pick up the cup and saucer . |
| 26 | She had half expected him to contact her after she had turned away the team of cleaners he 'd sent to her house to clear up the mess , but she had heard nothing . |
| 27 | He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs . |
| 28 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 29 | Wells lost his tolerance of contradiction in his anxiety to tidy up the world . |
| 30 | Eight years after setting a world mile record which still remains unchallenged today , the 32-year-old has abandoned his glittering international miling career to make his eagerly-awaited move up the distance ladder . |