Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December , South African commandos blew up the fuel storage depot at the Mozambique end of the oil pipeline to Zimbabwe . |
| 2 | Tallis could see how invisible feet kicked up the leaf litter , broke and trampled bracken . |
| 3 | TROY AIKMAN threw for three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title with a 41-17 NFL rout of the Atlanta Falcons . |
| 4 | By the end of that day the Allies had put 120 000 men ashore ; 60 000 American troops made up the assault force on the western beaches of Normandy , nicknamed Utah and Omaha . |
| 5 | The Tokugawa 's enemies took up the rallying cry of ‘ revere the emperor and expel the barbarian ’ ( sonnó0 jó0i ) , and kept it long after their leaders realized the impossibility of bringing external contacts to an end . |
| 6 | The Daytona race became part of the " Championship " in 1965 and in 1967 a total of eight races made up the Prototype competition . |
| 7 | The Darent valley , a short distance west of the town , contains several well-known examples such as Darent , Lullingstone and Farningham ; others existed up the Medway valley in the Maidstone area . |
| 8 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 9 | One evening , while enjoying a cigarette , I noticed how the draught coming under the doors collected up the tobacco smoke and drifted it towards the opposite end of the room where a tank was . |
| 10 | French film makers broke up the Cannes festival in solidarity . |