Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 2 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 3 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 4 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 5 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 6 | Rachel followed a squealing Belinda down the steps while David walked up to the deep end , dived in and swam back to join the rest of the group . |
| 7 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 8 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 9 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 10 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 11 | Xanthe stood up in the narrow space between the bed and the door in Miranda 's room , and said , ‘ You look rather ‘ beatnik ’ . |
| 12 | At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand . |
| 13 | TRAVEL agent Jacqui Ferguson came up with the right solution to land herself a dream trip round the world . |
| 14 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 15 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 16 | Fitzormonde gazed up at the cruel gargoyle faces on the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 17 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 18 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 19 | Reaching the silent wreck , Curtis walked up to the open driver 's door , which was hanging askew on one twisted hinge . |
| 20 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 21 | Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building . |
| 22 | Reluctantly , Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes . |
| 23 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
| 24 | Simon looked up into the massive , spinning construction of wires and girders that soared above them into the night sky . |
| 25 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 26 | Mick spoke up from the other tent . |
| 27 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 28 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 29 | To the Edinburgh , at least the Scotland passengers , to Carstairs to connect up to the main Glasgow Central to Liverpool , Birmingham and there were all these places . |
| 30 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |