Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 2 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 3 | We moved fast back up the stairs , along the passage and back down into the lobby of the Regal Arms , trying not to run . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 5 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 6 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 7 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 8 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 9 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 10 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 11 | Duvall cursed aloud , fired one last shot directly into the door and whatever lay beyond it , heard the resounding roar of anger and rage … and then retreated hastily back up the stairs towards them . |
| 12 | He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ . |
| 13 | Jack walked slowly back up the stairs numb and shivering . |
| 14 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 15 | By the mid-1950's the catch was diminishing , then the big Russian and Dutch factory ships moved in and began virtually vacuuming up the fish , taking the young as well as the adults . |
| 16 | I dashed straight back up the road to my own house , rang Paul and told him I 'd definitely have one , and maybe two . |
| 17 | After the success of the centenary festival it was hoped to hold the sing outdoors again , and for the 101st event in 1987 the committee worked hard to set up the staging and prepare the venue ; but a cloudburst just an hour before it was due to start necessitated a change of plan . |
| 18 | However , he decided instead to take up the post he had been offered of Captain and Governor of the Isle of Wight . |
| 19 | He kicked the wreckage aside , and ran into the empty engine room , searching , as the Russian looked anxiously back up the stairway , listening to the tremendous blows echoing through the ship . |
| 20 | The easiest way into a flat with aluminium frame windows is to use the little flap window at the top — the ventilator , only big enough for an organ grinder 's monkey , but easily opened with a knife , slipped underneath to prise up the catch . |
| 21 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |
| 22 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 23 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 24 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 25 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 26 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 27 | Carrie had already gathered up the baby 's toiletries in her arms and she left the room without answering him . |
| 28 | Rory had driven up and slipped into her bed like lightning , because he had already cooked up the plan to try and entice Jessica Roberts to go with him to Galway , and needed to sweeten Rosie for another evening 's absence . |
| 29 | A young Italian nobleman had already summed up the dismay felt by liberal Catholics in 1906 when he wrote , in a famous letter , ‘ Since the death of Pope Leo the Roman Curia has assumed towards the world of thought a reactionary attitude reminiscent of the days of Pius IX , when the Church was at war with everything and everybody . ’ |
| 30 | Nils had already opened up the engine compartment , which was directly below the deckhouse , and he and Iain were sitting on the floor with their legs dangling over the big diesel , going through a list of requirements he had produced . |