Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 2 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 3 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 4 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 5 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 6 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 7 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |
| 8 | At Cajabamba we joined a slightly better road , and soon afterwards we turned west and headed up into the mountains through Huamachuco , climbing all the way . |
| 9 | We collected the evidence , calculated the Twit Factor ( see below ) and came up with the answers … |
| 10 | Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed . |
| 11 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 12 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 13 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 14 | We were both thrown down and began to roll across the deck , but I was on my feet first and climbed up into the sails , hand over hand . |
| 15 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 16 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 17 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 18 | The City and the Grassroots argued , on the other hand , that successful urban social movements must confront state domination ( the tendency being for such domination to be centralised and tied up with the interests of monopoly capital ) and recognise the nature of local culture and experience . |
| 19 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 20 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
| 21 | The greens were crudely protected and kept up by the Artisans . |
| 22 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 23 | The charge hardly paused , however , and swarmed up to the gates in a rush . |
| 24 | I helped with the cows and the chickens , and went up on the hills with Mr Parks and his dog to look at the sheep . |
| 25 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 26 | I lay in my chair and stared up at the stars . |
| 27 | He took them out , stopped and stared up at the ravens cawing raucously against the blue sky . |
| 28 | The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins , together with the props . |
| 29 | The night was clear , and arched up from the hills with a new moon rising over their crests . |
| 30 | Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups . |