Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 2 | When it had gone she turned to watch the white waves roll up the beach then roll back . |
| 3 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 4 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 5 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 6 | There is a little poem by Ogden Nash from which a couple of ( long ) lines sum up the danger excellently . |
| 7 | But all religions have had their mystical failures who have used their experiences to prop up the ego rather than transcend it and whose behaviour has been very odd indeed . |
| 8 | They have no plans to start up the line again , but do offer a full spares and backup service for existing Coupes — whatever the manufacturer 's designation . |
| 9 | GPs also complain , quite rightly , that hospital staff making , for example , discharge plans for a group of patients to a new home or hostel sometimes neglect to discuss the plans with the primary care team — normally the local general practice together with its team of doctors , nurses and other specialists — yet expect the GPs to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong . |
| 10 | On this particular occasion it was doubled in time by the long army convoys crawling up the hills out of Lydney and Chepstow as the machine for war was ponderously assembled . |
| 11 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 12 | There was a cry to halt , then they opened fire , but he was just outside their range ; bullets kicked up the snow about five yards away to his left . |
| 13 | We watched the gardeners sweeping them into piles and the children swept up the leaves too . |
| 14 | The laws speed up the game greatly but clearly much thought has still to be given to implementation . |
| 15 | 1982 , Academic Press ) , the deposits making up the platforms there accumulated naturally as sea levels gradually rose between about 4000 and 2500 years ago . |
| 16 | Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Other studies have used a series of slides making up the story instead of a film . |