Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 2 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 3 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 4 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 5 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 6 | With that warning Sergeant Hanafin cycled up the narrow dusty road leaving Bull O'Malley staring after him . |
| 7 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 8 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 9 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 10 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 11 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 12 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 13 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 14 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 15 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 16 | Clearly some rulers and ministers were being affected in the second half of the century by the complex and often conflicting currents which made up the great intellectual movement of the Enlightenment ( see Chap . |
| 17 | His wares made up the largest individual parcel in a massive consignment of plate exported to the Tsarina Anna in 1726 , much of which again had paid no duty . |
| 18 | These three and Tseveenjavyn Öold , chairman of the central control committee , and Lodongiyn Tudev , editor-in-chief of the party paper Unen , made up the new five-member politburo . |
| 19 | Finally Selwyn College , Cambridge offered me a scholarship , Berkshire County Council doubled this amount , and the Ordination Candidates Fund made up the two hundred pounds per annum necessary for university life in 1921 . |
| 20 | The three women who made up the much-admired Daily Mirror Reader Service , introduced in 1944 but cut by Maxwell ( on New Year 's Eve 1985 , the same day as Pilger himself had been ‘ purged ’ , as he put it ) , would come en masse , providing an unmatchable advice forum for the paper 's buyers . |
| 21 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 22 | Now several people in the audience were on their feet and waving in an attempt to attract the attention of Gerrard , who left the dais and walked up the narrow central aisle , holding a hand microphone high in the air . |
| 23 | She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient . |
| 24 | He scooped up the solid little parcel . |
| 25 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 26 | So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung . |
| 27 | He dashed up the short front path at a run and shot through the door Meredith held open for him . |
| 28 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 29 | Spurred on by a new hope , she ran across the road and scrambled up the smooth grassy side of the hillock . |
| 30 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |