Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 3 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 4 | I turned up the collar of my fake biker 's jacket and walked off . |
| 5 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 6 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 7 | I scrambled up the side-wall of the canyon and peeped over . |
| 8 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 9 | I brought up the question of bans and proscriptions and Sinclair finally stated that no red flags or ‘ unauthorised ’ slogans will be permitted . |
| 10 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 11 | ‘ To answer both questions I dreamed up the character of a man who is 764 years old ; who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance . |
| 12 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 13 | I looked up the line of the torrent . |
| 14 | ‘ So — I kept up the pretence of believing you were using drugs , hoping you 'd accept having me around all the time in a bid to prove your own innocence . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 16 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 18 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 19 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 20 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
| 21 | At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles . |
| 22 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 23 | The first thing to note is that a chase should be built up in exactly the way you built up the whole of your book . |
| 24 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 25 | Turning round , she folded up the collar of her black T-shirt experimentally and , liking the effect , fastened a double row of pearls around it . |
| 26 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 27 | She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door . |
| 28 | She packed up the remains of the bread and cheese they had had for supper , and then watched as he clipped poles together and hammered in pegs ; within minutes the flimsy little structure was up and ready . |
| 29 | Despite the sunshine , it was a crisp , cold day , and she pulled up the collar of her black jacket , flicking the long auburn mane of her hair out of the way . |
| 30 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |