Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 2 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 3 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 4 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 5 | Another hand snaked up the chest and pinched tight on a nipple . |
| 6 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 7 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 8 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 9 | As the cold winter gave way to early spring more shipping sailed up the Thames , bringing some extra work for the struggling rivermen , but there was still much unemployment in the riverside borough . |
| 10 | That incident pointed up the hostility between the two and that hostility reflects the political culture of Scotland . |
| 11 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 12 | That same agent blew up the room I had been in because I was getting too close . |
| 13 | The very efficiency of any improvement speeded up the lowering of the land as the peat dried and ‘ wasted ’ through the activities of bacteria and fungi . |