Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 2 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 3 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 4 | GEC , under the guidance of Lord Weinstock , built itself up into the largest manufacturing employer in the UK , producing a wide range of products from telecommunications to defence electronics . |
| 5 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 6 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 7 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 8 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 9 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 10 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 11 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 12 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 13 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 14 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 15 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 16 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 17 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 18 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 19 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 20 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 21 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 22 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 23 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 24 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 25 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 26 | There was a way down , on iron rungs , from the Reading Room , and a way out , through a high locked portal , which brought you up into the sunless Egyptian necropolis , amongst blind staring pharaohs , crouching scribes , minor sphinxes and empty mummy-cases . |
| 27 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 28 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 29 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 30 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |