Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun] " 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 My aunt looked up the records and told me about her .
4 I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders .
5 The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her .
6 The next two hours were hectic , the Rose Bowl 's new owner struggling alone with the lunchtime rush while her assistant made up the orders that should have been done earlier .
7 Her dress fastened up the front and she began to undo the buttons .
8 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 .
9 When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane .
10 To the general surprise , the March — it was worked on by Harvey Postlethwaite , now at Ferrari and one of a handful of the really bright ones — proved an effective foil for Hunt 's driving style : Hunt qualified ninth and was running sixth when his engine gave up the ghost .
11 The commander , above , and his crew raced up the Rock of Gibraltar to help Janet 's Team-Up appeal .
12 His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband .
13 Rodgers and his wife built up the collection without the aid of a professional adviser , purchasing from dealers and at auction .
14 Once he was over the edge of extreme fatigue his brain drank up the language by the pint .
15 In writing with this frankly propagandist aim — to focus on Jesus Christ — the disciple was bring faithful to the remarkable way in which his Master summed up the purpose of all Scripture .
16 His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there .
17 The rest of his party brought up the rear , baiting and goading Ranulf , who gave as good as he got with a stream of obscene English oaths .
18 In Parma , as in all other towns and cities in Italy , there were a number of case di tolleranza , brothels recognized by the authorities , in which the girls were subject to regular medical examinations , and three of the boys in our class plucked up the courage to visit one of these on the way home from school one evening .
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