Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 2 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 3 | Sacco swarmed up the steering-wheel post and wrestled the keys out of the ignition while the rest of the boys poked around in the cab . |
| 4 | Over the years he has played league cricket and county cricket for Sussex and Glamorgan with resounding success , and on his last trip to England thrilled the crowd with a magnificent display of strokemaking at the Oval , scoring 260 as Pakistan ran up the imposing total of 708 . |
| 5 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
| 6 | Eleanor picked up the fresh flowers and began trimming their stems . |
| 7 | Frankie picked up the empty kettle and went to refill it but I noticed that none of the onlookers tried to wring his neck while he had the kettle in his hands . |
| 8 | Manville picked up the second folder , sighing heavily . |
| 9 | Satisfied , Manville picked up the coded copy and headed towards the despatch room . |
| 10 | Once again Skaller picked up the two pictures , but only the features of the other boy still held his glance . |
| 11 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 12 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 13 | Jasper Sharpe powered up the direct start to Moving Staircase at High Rocks to give a fun ( and 6b ) boulder problem . |
| 14 | Ditchburn covered up the extra payments through a hugely inflated figure for the purchase of straw to protect the turf from frost . |
| 15 | Step by step , Elena advanced up the academic tree in pace with Nicolae 's progress up the hierarchy of the Communist Party . |
| 16 | In 1950 , because of pressure of work on Grove , Blom gave up the important editorship of Music & Letters , which he had held since 1937 . |
| 17 | In the continuing war of words between reformers and hardliners , Mr Nemeth conjured up the best insult of the day when he referred to his opponents as ‘ Stone Age conservatives ’ . |
| 18 | Al Gore summed up the changing world when he said that he and Clinton were the first two leaders of their country to be born after 1945 . |
| 19 | Iskandara picked up the few envelopes and looked at them disinterestedly . |
| 20 | Cornelius picked up the old paper bag and carefully uncreased it . |
| 21 | Maud picked up the top letter on each pile . |
| 22 | Léonie picked up the wet cake of soap from the tin dish stencilled with poppies and washed her hands . |
| 23 | Brazil set up the National Bank for Economic and Social Development ( BNDES ) in the 1950s . |
| 24 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 25 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 26 | Félicité et Perpétue crept up the mellow brickwork , and Gloire de Dijon climbed higher , and there were heavy dark crimson Bourdons and Portland roses in the borders and pink Ce/1leste clumped at the corners with its paler leaves . |
| 27 | Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers . |
| 28 | Julia took up the assembled bridle and they walked outside into the early evening sun . |
| 29 | That month Coleridge kept up the radical cry by publishing some of his Bristol lectures from earlier in the year , under the title Conciones ad Populum , and in late December he embarked on an altogether bolder enterprise . |
| 30 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |