Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 2 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 3 | In every second town we reach , he finds some villain or slut to act up in the crowd . |
| 4 | If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays . |
| 5 | He has taken it in response to the pressure and fight put up by the ‘ homelands Chief Ministers ’ — Buthelezi and Co . |
| 6 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 7 | Trend prediction is now big business to help commerce and industry keep up with the latest demands created by peer group pressure . |
| 8 | They are the public face of the secret survival of ancient belief and practice tied up with the power of the landscape . |
| 9 | The driver and fireman ran up to the inert body ; too late , the man was dead . |
| 10 | Since we had complete snow cover , A Mad Tall Litho Lad was buried deep beneath a white mantle , and cutting steps up through the soft snow was becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 11 | An imposing wooden staircase and gallery leads up to the suites which have a bedroom and a sitting area or sitting room , a bathroom , TV and telephone . |
| 12 | Attacked , promises General Powell , it will be — once its supply lines along the Euphrates valley have been severed and its men and equipment softened up from the air . |
| 13 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 14 | ‘ Anglers broke the ice to fish and diesel bubbled up to the surface . |
| 15 | A KEY ELEMENT in the rich mix of cricket 's attractions is the wealth of quirk and oddity thrown up by the game . |
| 16 | Nazism fed on the dark myths of racial purity and xenophobia dressed up in the glories of a supposedly great history and an invented Nordic heritage ( Walker 1969 ) . |
| 17 | As was typical of nineteenth and early twentieth century food retailing , foods were on open display on shop counters , in open windows and on the stalls outside , where food was exposed to the dirt and dust thrown up from the street . |
| 18 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 19 | Over time , age and reality catch up with the dreams but , even though the dreams have to be modified , often painfully , the search for an opportunity to stretch oneself , to let the potential emerge , is endless . |
| 20 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |