Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 2 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 3 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 4 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 5 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 6 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 7 | She might have succeeded in reaching him , but the tree was laden with apples and as she moved up among the higher branches where the fruit had almost ripened , apples began to cascade down . |
| 8 | It sounded extremely good , so I , lying on my back in the sunshine , shouted up to the open windows , ‘ Hello , who 's playing that ? ’ |
| 9 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 10 | A crescendo of resentment built up between the two women , which reached its finale when Pamela lost Victoria 's precious blue rabbit , whereupon Marie gave notice . |
| 11 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 12 | The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe . |
| 13 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 14 | These rests are important because they allow your muscles to rebuild the depleted energy stores used up during the intense phases . |
| 15 | It can readily be seen that the sum of constant capital ( C ) used up in the two departments is equal to the sum of means of production produced in Dept . |
| 16 | It can now be seen that the sum of constant capital used up in the two departments during the production cycle is less than the total means of production produced by Dept . |
| 17 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 18 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 19 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 20 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 21 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 22 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 23 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 24 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 25 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 26 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 27 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 28 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 29 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 30 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |