Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 2 | Dot spooned up the bottom from where it was cool and milky . |
| 3 | She wore a pale blue suit , skirt slit up the thigh for combat , and a white blouse . |
| 4 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 5 | A deal signed with the American biotechnology firm , Genentech , for the mass-production of the protein opened up the prospect of supplying a massive world market for haemophiliacs . |
| 6 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 7 | Holly Park , once the home of South Liverpool FC , has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 8 | The Holly Park site in Garston has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 9 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 10 | Alfred Hedgehog climbed up the bank of the canal and started off down the trail . |
| 11 | I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope . |
| 12 | The next day the front page of the Sun took up the theme with enthusiasm : PORN LUST OF THE FOX ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 13 | The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 15 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 16 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 17 | so then the housekeeper phoned up the doctor in October |
| 18 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 19 | The journal showed up the regime in the most clumsy , incompetent , and oppressive light . |
| 20 | Rain walked up the room after Mona with Ruby running crabwise beside her begging : ‘ Do think of something , Rain . |
| 21 | Cornelius watched as the barmaid scooped up the bluebottle with the spatula , flipped it into the air and batted it out of the window . |
| 22 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 23 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 24 | Whatever Jenny was involved in at any given moment took up the whole of her . |
| 25 | 3–11–1898 The Moderator read the following extract minute of Presbytery ; " The presbytery took up the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church as sent down by last General Assembly , and as Instructed by the Assembly , agreed to transmit the said report to the Kirk Session within their bounds for their information . " |
| 26 | But it 's only just over two and a half years since the village Post Office and shop put up the shutters for the last time . |
| 27 | Lee switched on the torch and the beam lit up the stack-yard like a searchlight . |
| 28 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |
| 29 | Rain ran up the rest of the stairs . |
| 30 | Facing this triangular space , created for the benefit of traders , the abbot divided up the land on either side into a series of narrow plots on which traders and others were encouraged to settle permanently , building their houses with timber and other materials provided by him . |