Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mistaken identification of some red dye , accidentally spilled on a window sill , as blood , led to a riot that was only broken up when the mob was charged by soldiers led by a cutlass-wielding town councillor on horseback . |
| 2 | ‘ It seemed to me , and the team , that the flag only went up after the ball hit the back of the net , ’ he said . |
| 3 | All I have to do is push down , the man inside pushes up and the wardrobe slowly comes up like that . |
| 4 | He knows that as long as everybody stays level with the leading attacker they can just step up when the ball is played and the linesman 's flag will be raised . |
| 5 | Though not , of course , the one he 'd just come up because the ferret was still down there in hot pursuit . |
| 6 | His ulcer had finally blown up and the doctor was rushing him to hospital . |
| 7 | As a result , the second visit sees a number of entrances and bolt-holes still closed up while the remainder are back in use . |
| 8 | I always wake up before the alarm goes , so I got to watch . |
| 9 | It was deliberately set up when the University received its Charter in 1909 . |
| 10 | They rose 10 per cent on 2 August , and also moved up when the UN imposed sanctions , when Iraq refused the UN 's call for withdrawal and when the UN set the 15 january deadline . |
| 11 | Even this latter source of funds is now drying up as the property market slides into an ever deeper slump . |
| 12 | Ask the task orientated member to regularly sum up where the meeting has reached . |
| 13 | The girl playing marbles did n't even look up as the travellers left . |
| 14 | Some aspects are still a little scrappy — the bundled software , DOS and Windows , is n't particularly well set up and the documentation wo n't win a Pulitzer prize . |
| 15 | Chapters 4 to 6 are art historical , interpreting about 800 years , beginning with a time when a miniaturist copied approved models with almost or actual religious obedience , and ending in a period in the early Renaissance when an illuminator does not even stand up when the Chancellor of France enters the room or when John of Holland can complain that Jacquemart de Hesdin has stolen his private pattern sheets in 1398 . |
| 16 | The value of the ‘ pearls ’ each family has collected is then added up and the family with the highest number is the winner . |
| 17 | Aches and pains sometimes ease up when the menopause is over but many of us will have to settle for a certain amount of back pain , headaches and limited movement from now on . |
| 18 | The balloons will then stand up and the base will look like feet . |
| 19 | The arm and post are then lined up and the mortise marked off on the arm from the post . |
| 20 | The latter suggestion was indeed taken up and the Area Board chairmen met monthly with Citrine , Self and Hacking to work out a common policy . |
| 21 | In previous cases the Coal Board had either paid up or the owner had agreed to demolition . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you fashionable young men never got up until the afternoon , ’ she said . |
| 23 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 24 | One way or the other she would find out soon enough , for she must definitely speak up before the meal was over . |
| 25 | But having I could just tell councillor that the main problems which he felt he had to bring into this debate , the main problem is parking across the driveways in Harvey Goodwin Avenue , both the residents get very fed up because the parking . |
| 26 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |
| 27 | A marriage occasionally broke up because the wife asked for too much . |