Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 2 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 3 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 4 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 5 | WITH ONLY 48 hours to come up with the cash , Michael Knighton 's £20m take-over bid for Manchester United is back on course following a High Court ruling that gives him leave to put together a funding package . |
| 6 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 7 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |
| 8 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 9 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 10 | For a while they walked in silence , retracing their steps back up towards the house . |
| 11 | There were also some strange red rods sticking up in the air from a holder . |
| 12 | But the winners make up with the size of their winnings what they lack in numbers . |
| 13 | Depending on the evolution of management during the early 1990s , the confusions building up in the Training Authority 's role may need to be unravelled : either it is strengthened as an effective arm of central policy , or it is abolished so that the market — created by itself — can have freer play . |
| 14 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 15 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 16 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 17 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 18 | 6.3 The expiry or termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Parties accrued up to the date of such expiry or termination . |
| 19 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 20 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 21 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 22 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 23 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 24 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 25 | and there 's no facilities for kids , you know young kids ranging up to the age of er about sixteen seventeen . |
| 26 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 27 | The founding fathers of capitalist enterprise in south-western Germany were not always rich , but the number of those with long family experience in business , and often in the industries they were to develop , is significant : Swiss-Alsatian Protestants like the Koechlin , Geigy or Sarrasin , Jews grown up in the finance of small princelings , rather than technically innovating craftsmen-entrepreneurs . |
| 28 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 29 | After turning the sausages and prodding the briquettes again he rested his arms on the railing and looked out over Central Park , his eyes screwed up against the sun even though he was wearing a pair of prescription sunglasses . |
| 30 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |