Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 2 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 3 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 4 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 5 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
| 6 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
| 7 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 9 | If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition . |
| 10 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 11 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 12 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 13 | We were delighted with his debut over fences when he beat Forest Sun in a hot novice contest at Worcester and he followed up at the same course on Wednesday . |
| 14 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 15 | We rolled up at the same time , I on my bike , the Parsons in their BMW . |
| 16 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 19 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 20 | The paper back is pasted , and the roll put up in the same way as standard wallpaper . |
| 21 | At the airport planes of astonishingly different sizes — like children 's toys on different scales mixed up in the same game queue to use the runway for take-off . |
| 22 | In the south-east , it shot up over the same period from 4 to 9.7pc . |
| 23 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 24 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 25 | These authorities are presided over by the National Water Council , set up at the same time to be a central co-ordinating body to give advice on major matters of policy ( Times , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | He stood up at the same time as she did , and caught her as she made for the door . |
| 27 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 28 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 29 | Paul Stewart is also having treatment on a knee injury picked up in the same match and is fighting to be fit for Monday 's Merseyside derby . |