Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 2 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 3 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 4 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 5 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
| 6 | The captain has the responsibility of having the report of the shoot , the names of the people who entered , minutes of their AGM and the prizewinners written up in the records . |
| 7 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 8 | The place was n't huge by country house standards — two storeys , twenty-something rooms — but its main entrance was a covered carriage porch with stone pillars and broad steps leading up to the doors . |
| 9 | Swathes opened up in the crowds on either side as they saw the brickbats coming . |
| 10 | Foreign trade responded to the opportunities opened up by the outlets to the Baltic and later the Black Sea , grain becoming the major export . |
| 11 | Ruth got into bed and sat there , knees drawn up under the covers . |
| 12 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 13 | To film arctic foxes facing up to the rigours of approaching winter . |
| 14 | A typical short cut was the successful assumption that some indicators set up by the operators in the four machine windows were not random but girls ' names or four-letter dirty German words . |
| 15 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 16 | Voices drifted up through the floorboards every Thursday night . |
| 17 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 18 | How do the animals end up in the zoos ? |
| 19 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 20 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 21 | Money in the Royal Life and Hafnia funds rolls up inside the bonds tax free , because they are offshore . |
| 22 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 23 | And did you ever hear of tensions building up amongst the men ? |
| 24 | Oh yes very often tensions building up among the men . |
| 25 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 26 | The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves . |
| 27 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 28 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |
| 29 | Blind grain sites showing up on the ears of some cereal crops could trim yields and perhaps downgrade stands intended for seed . |
| 30 | The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before . |