Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 3 | Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly brought up the rear . |
| 4 | Some of the discipline went out of the play , but as others tired Jess picked up the pace of the game and finished looking as likely as match-winner as anyone . |
| 5 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 6 | Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides . |
| 7 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |