Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 2 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 3 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 4 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 5 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 6 | His eyes had flicked up to the top of the small cliff to our left . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most notorious was a forger ; Coiner Varley who escaped sliding down a rubbish tip which the market traders had pushed up against the wall of the gaol . |
| 8 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 9 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 10 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 11 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 12 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 13 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 14 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required . |
| 16 | After several more rounds , things began to warm up in the ‘ Barge ’ public bar . |
| 17 | Things did liven up after the break when Wallace replaced Whelan . |
| 18 | ‘ It was bucketing rain , and in the rain the leeches had climbed up from the water into the trees as well . |
| 19 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 20 | Ludens had picked up from the floor a sketch , acrylic on paper , representing ( perhaps ) a pale human figure emerging from a dark marsh or river . |
| 21 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 22 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 23 | The Poles , through Commissioner General Marian Chodacki , said that what went on to their stamps was their business , and they were genuinely mystified that Danzigers whose ancestors had risen up against the Teutonic Knights should feel offended by stamps that celebrated their victory . |
| 24 | Both men had moved up in the world recently and the evidence of their new wealth was all around them in the curtains , the carpets , the original paintings and the quality of the ornaments and effects . |
| 25 | Two men had driven up to the gate in a van containing a 70 kg bomb which they then detonated . |
| 26 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 27 | He said the debts had built up following the collapse of his business . |
| 28 | Even the concrete floor had cracked with age and clusters of weeds had grown up through the uneven apertures . |
| 29 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 30 | the dark clouds had crept up from the sea , and trailed across the sky . |