Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artisoft Inc has journeyed to Palo Alto , California from its backwoods base in Tucson , Arizona and signed up the Wollongong Group in a bid to give Lantastic users access to the Unix world . |
| 2 | We also hired a speedboat in Ipsos and powered up the coast for a beautiful view . |
| 3 | He knelt before Dorn and held up the knife . |
| 4 | So we ordered another Guinness and soaked up the atmosphere some more . |
| 5 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 6 | You can read in The Spectator of two hundred and sixty years ago that the streets of London were not safe at night because of the Mohawks , gangs who terrorised London and beat up the Watch , who tarred and feathered innocent citizens . |
| 7 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |