Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] up the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " . |
| 2 | It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test . |
| 3 | Two of the doors were numbered , and Alison opened up the door bearing an eight . |
| 4 | Ward opened up the paper to reveal two tiny clay figures interlocked , the woman with her head bent over the man 's huge phallic erection . |
| 5 | Dracula walking up the brickwork to claim her ? |
| 6 | Robert gave up the attempt to eavesdrop . |
| 7 | Mark Blunt and David Wilson set up the Chester-le-Street win despite a 5–49 return from Mark Storey . |
| 8 | While she was working , Kalchu came up the ladder carrying a basket of jharo , the resinous wood that 's gouged from deep inside the trunks of the oldest , tallest pine trees , then cut into chips and burned for lighting . |
| 9 | Kalchu came up the ladder carrying a cockerel . |
| 10 | It was a moment or two before Harry plucked up the courage to say , ‘ I do hope you wo n't do that , Madeleine . |
| 11 | Hearing of his father 's recovery , Lachlan leapt up the stair to visit him , but was turned from his door . |
| 12 | FOUR YEARS ago , Wirral plucked up the courage to make itself the centre of the finger-pickin' universe . |
| 13 | Then Berwick turned up the power to land five 5–1 heat victories in a runaway finish . |
| 14 | I recall one man in the dale saying that he passed Sleetburn going up the fell to shepherd at 10 a.m. one day and heard Sam and Mother playing . |
| 15 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
| 16 | A part of the Jubilee Appeal funding has enabled Jennie Appleby to take up the half-time paid post of North East Field Officer , for a year in the first instance . |
| 17 | After a while , too , some of the more literary residents of Princeton plucked up the courage to speak to him . |
| 18 | Dalgliesh picked up the bag containing the shoes . |
| 19 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , ’ he says , ‘ here are the Waylands coming up the Parkway to call on Charles Aught … |
| 21 | Feeling small and insignificant , Chesarynth summoned up the courage to move . |
| 22 | Also at about the same moment as the homing rat disappeared into the maze of runs under the city , scurrying along in faultless obedience to an ancient instinct , the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork picked up the letters delivered that morning by albatross . |