Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 2 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 3 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 4 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 5 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 6 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 7 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 8 | The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities . |
| 9 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 10 | Parin nodded , and he signed to his assistants to roll up the books so that they could be packed away in the boxes and chests in which they were stored . |