Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
| 2 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 3 | She ignored him , and turned up the sound on the telly . |
| 4 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 5 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 6 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 7 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 8 | The Nottinghamshire opening partnership of left handers kept up the pressure on a shaky Worcestershire attack . |
| 9 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 10 | They wound up the valley on a broad ride through trees . |
| 11 | He picked up the ball on the edge of his penalty area , pushed it to Ricky McAvoy who laid on the chance for McCallan to drill his shot past Wesley Lamont . |
| 12 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 13 | The Sheikh motioned us to sit down , left his men outside , and picked up the phone on the table . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll be in touch so that we can arrange for C.W. to meet your men before Mobuto arrives tonight , ’ Kolchinsky said then picked up the transmitter on the desk and activated the door . |
| 15 | If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon . |
| 16 | JIM 'S PUB : He snapped up the lease on the Old Bells to keep a job |