Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 2 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 3 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 4 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 5 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 6 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 7 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 8 | Mr Heseltine was asked on LBC radio whether , if the Conservatives ended up the largest party with , say , 320 seats , Mr Major would not get on the telephone to do a deal to secure an overall majority . |
| 9 | First-time guests peered up the dark oak staircase to the gallery murmuring , ‘ Mrs Danvers , ’ under their breath . |
| 10 | Several supports broke up the smooth appearance of the walls , and joined the floor and ceiling at angles that did n't seem really workable . |
| 11 | After dinner , guests drifted up the steep basement stairs to the Bechstein in the drawing room to sing : at the last party I was at , Lennox Berkeley 's contemporaries , many in their eighties , and friends of their three sons , sang tunes like ‘ A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square ’ and ‘ Tea for Two ’ . |
| 12 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 13 | Two author studies made up the highest proportion of articles in both journals . |
| 14 | Through such developments , a cadre of AEA managers went up the commercial learning curve . |
| 15 | At one point , the official , irrelevant , birthday fireworks lit up the marching protesters , to the accompaniment of deafening explosions . |
| 16 | Dissension among France 's enemies broke up the Second Coalition , though not before Russia 's most revered commander , Suvorov , had temporarily driven the French from northern Italy and conducted a legendary retreat through the Swiss Alps . |
| 17 | Short response items made up the initial sections of these tests . |
| 18 | Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘ Yesterday Timisoara , today Bucharest . ’ |
| 19 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |
| 20 | The English archers broke up the Scottish positions and the Earl of Dunbar and Robert the Steward fled with their troops . |
| 21 | Men gave up the very linings of their greatcoats to provide the little creatures with fur . |
| 22 | Two of the volunteers ran up the white flag and could n't stay the court . |
| 23 | That morning , as he galloped along the ride between the trees in the Tiergarten , his horse 's hooves kicked up the powdered snow filling him with a fierce joy . |
| 24 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |
| 25 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |
| 26 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |
| 27 | Sixteen races made up the 1986 championship . |
| 28 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 29 | Without delay , the fire-fighters gave up the unequal struggle to contain the leaping flames . |
| 30 | However , as the busloads of pilgrims trudged up the muddy paths to the whispered prayers ( ’ Our Lady of Ballinspittle sway for us ’ ) of the local inn keepers , the Bishop of Cork gave a lukewarm endorsement to the extent that it WIS no bad thing to see people praying . |