Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 2 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 3 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 4 | On three occasions a diligent search turned up a small droplet on the ground , and under the microscope it turned out to be a sperm mass . |
| 5 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
| 6 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 7 | Resigning herself to the inevitable , she walked quietly alongside him as he kept up a running commentary on all they passed or saw . |
| 8 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 9 | The woman took up an uncompromising stance on the doorstep , arms folded , chin raised . |
| 10 | The Bowling League of Ireland side put up a heartening performance on Saturday , their biggest problem is finding front end players , especially leads . |
| 11 | The giant chaser put up an exciting performance on his debut for the champion trainer , romping home by 12 lengths from favourite Fit For Firing at Wincanton on Saturday . |
| 12 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 13 | ‘ Have ye not , ’ the young man 's voice was noncommittal as he straightened his back and wound up the spare netting on a wooden stake . |
| 14 | Instead he summoned up the perennial fears on the East Bank of Israeli destabilisation and denounced what he said were Zionist plots to make Jordan a substitute homeland for the Palestinians . |
| 15 | No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it . |
| 16 | The idea proved such a success that the Government ran up a considerable deficit on the scheme . |
| 17 | After leaving university he set up a roadying business on the government 's Enterprise Allowance Scheme . |
| 18 | In 1843 the Government set up a Royal Commission on the Health of Towns ; in 1844 the Health of Towns Association was founded , whose central committee included Disraeli and Lord John Manners , the other moving spirit in the Young England Movement , characterized as Lord Henry Sydney in Coningsby . |
| 19 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 20 | As the Merseysiders struggled to get into the match , Beagrie picked up a short corner on the left and let fly with a tremendous swirling drive that ricocheted into the net off the post . |
| 21 | He exchanged a polite smile with the secretary after Karen had left , then picked up the only magazine on the coffee table and leafed through it , his interest not overly stimulated by a computer programming manual written in German . |
| 22 | Maud picked up the top letter on each pile . |