Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 2 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 3 | The company told the news agency that it has sold more than 200,000 of the 95LX model and will continue to sell both models — but ‘ We expect the 100LX to be even more popular and open up a whole new market . ’ |
| 4 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 5 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 6 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 7 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 8 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 9 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 10 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 11 | They turned off sharply to the left and headed up a straight , sloping road between sombre stands of oak and beech . |
| 12 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 13 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 14 | We swung into a drive , knocking a mesh gate askew and waking up a snoring security guard . |
| 15 | You read an article about the police barging into a flat in the middle of the night for no apparent reason , stripping everyone naked and beating up an old lady , and you have to scrutinise the text for clues . |
| 16 | That is expensive and takes up a good part of our income . ’ |
| 17 | And Kalchu was satisfied and picked up the quivering body to carry it back to the fireside . |