Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 2 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 3 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 4 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 5 | The pieces were put into ten different bags and driven away by Laing after he meticulously cleaned up the Manwarings ' house in Aldersley Gardens , Barking , east London , the jury was told . |
| 6 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 7 | I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton . |
| 8 | It was found at this stage that the testbed had insufficient memory for more sophisticated processing and , since the simple improver did not significantly better the correlation ( though it certainly tidied up the displayed picture ) , this line of investigation was abandoned . |
| 9 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 10 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |