Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 2 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 3 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 4 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 5 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 6 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 7 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 8 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 9 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 10 | Already in January 1948 they had yielded up the clause in the wartime Quebec Agreement which stated that neither Britain nor the United States would use nuclear weapons without the consent of the other . |
| 11 | And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint . |
| 12 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 13 | It was clear by the late 1950s that TV , like radio before it , would provide the ‘ main facts ’ and the latest news , and that people wanted to follow up the details in a newspaper . |