Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 2 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 4 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 5 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
| 6 | I helped her keep up the house . |
| 7 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 8 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
| 9 | He balled it , and used it to wipe up the mess . |
| 10 | Loud Clachaig Inn climber revellers woke me clambering up the stairs . |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 12 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 13 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |
| 14 | She had her back to him when she heard him pick up the mug . |
| 15 | I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ . |
| 16 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 17 | And he knew how much I needed him to wind up the case . |
| 18 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 19 | Everyone watched him stride up the aisle towards the door at the back of the auditorium . |
| 20 | As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain . |
| 21 | His quest for adventure led him to give up the business and sail around the world with a friend in 1980 — but disaster struck . |
| 22 | " He 's been shaking like this ever since he was sixteen years old , " the Keraing told us , " when he first had the experience which made him take up the profession . |
| 23 | Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car . |
| 24 | He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department . |
| 25 | Key was surprised when I asked him to clear up the controversy . |
| 26 | Later , when modern machinery enabled them to speed up the process , the realisation came that twenty-five acres was probably more than enough to cope with , what with the borders , lawns and terraces into the bargain . |
| 27 | ‘ Lucy saw you comin' up the yard with him . ’ |
| 28 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 29 | Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring . |
| 30 | Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face . |