Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 2 | Anabelle watched from under the gate while the boy snatched up the huge bowl and dashed into the house . |
| 3 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 4 | He made a dash for the table , snatched up the boiled egg and stuffed it into his pocket . |
| 5 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 6 | Julie snatched up the heavy skillet and swung it with all her strength . |
| 7 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 8 | She withdrew fifty millilitres of completely unnecessary blood from the patient 's arm , filled up the appropriate bottles and then put a blob on the treated strip and glanced at her watch . |
| 9 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 10 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 11 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 12 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 13 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 14 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |
| 15 | He had contributed time and money freely to causes in which he believed , and his energy was a vital factor in the completion of the Trent and Mersey canal , which opened up the continental trade and reduced transport costs through its connection with Hull and Liverpool . |
| 16 | Just as she had said , the porter 's wife opened up the main door and the inner gate from her room and then poked her head out . |
| 17 | Yet another rarity turned up the other day and which I illustrate here . |
| 18 | The customer turned up the same day and wanted changes made . |
| 19 | I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers . |
| 20 | While my right hand spooned up the sweet pulp and hefted my glass of Alsace riesling , my left explored the contours of my neighbour 's inner calf and the hollow behind her knee . |
| 21 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |
| 22 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |
| 23 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 24 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 25 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 26 | He scampered up the outer staircase and disappeared into the hall . |
| 27 | At the same time , no power-dressed working woman would be seen dead without her higher heeled shoes — both to stamp on the toes of the men as she stepped up the corporate ladder and to balance her wide , padded shoulders . |
| 28 | A quick cup of tea with Ewen and then on to the Loganair Twin Otter which slithered up the slushy runway and took the over-sea route to avoid the worst weather en route to Barra stopping at Benbecula . |
| 29 | Nikos looked at him with scorn , scooped up the remaining papers and went out . |
| 30 | In fury he scooped up the gelatinous mess and hurled it at Fairbrother , who kicked him in the balls . |