Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " 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 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 3 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 4 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |
| 5 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 6 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
| 9 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 10 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 16 | Its omnifont recognition algorithms teamed up with the use of the dictionary have given us a recognition rate we 'd estimate at between 98% and 99% , and all without having to teach the program what any letters are , which we consider to be very good . |
| 17 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 18 | Swathes opened up in the crowds on either side as they saw the brickbats coming . |
| 19 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 20 | Foreign trade responded to the opportunities opened up by the outlets to the Baltic and later the Black Sea , grain becoming the major export . |
| 21 | So if ordinary paper labels curled up during the manufacturing process , they would take the vinyl with them , resulting in a warped disc . |
| 22 | That is the private opportunity cost of the funds tied up in the project . |
| 23 | Voices drifted up through the floorboards every Thursday night . |
| 24 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 25 | Safri cleaned up in the song awards , with Par Linghade judged best dance song and best cover song and Bomb The Tombi the best album . |
| 26 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 27 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 28 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 29 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 30 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |