Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 2 | The flames lit up the skyline but there was no sign of Mayne . |
| 3 | He was stoking the fire unnecessarily until the flames raced up the chimney . |
| 4 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 5 | Then the midwife lifted up the gown and rolled her roughly on to her side . |
| 6 | In the first the computer threw up the names , in the second it allocated the numbers . |
| 7 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 8 | The Chairman summed up the changes succinctly : |
| 9 | However , there is no exclusion from the application of Part XV similar to that contained in TA 1988 , s741 , ie it applies whether or not the taxpayer set up the trust to avoid tax and whether or not the transaction was a bona fide commercial transaction . |
| 10 | ‘ The break-up or impairment of the old ideas of discipline or order , and the life of great cities create occasions for some varieties of crime ’ , is how The Times summed up the feeling in 1899 . |
| 11 | The BRU summed up the principles in eight points . |
| 12 | He lay back on the seat in the dark interior with the attaché case resting on his knees as the driver cranked up the engine . |
| 13 | The driver picked up the wallet and flicked it open , his gaze going between its contents and the road . |
| 14 | The eunuchs piled into the entrance hall , the musicians started up the music and Vimla led the dancing by stamping her foot and ringing her little anklet bells . |
| 15 | It was from here that the Stuarts sized up the potential of the area for exploitation . |
| 16 | When the figure looked up the boy was impressed by bright , blue eyes and a long nose but a kind expression . |
| 17 | At first sight everything seemed normal as boats bobbed at anchor in the little harbour , the wind whipped up the sea , and the mainly farming community attended to early calving . |
| 18 | Holly Park , once the home of South Liverpool FC , has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 19 | The Holly Park site in Garston has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 20 | The blue tape of smoke from the left hand snaggled for a moment , then the snaggle slid up the tape and disappeared , leaving the smoke rising as steadily as before from the underside of the hand . |
| 21 | A deal signed with the American biotechnology firm , Genentech , for the mass-production of the protein opened up the prospect of supplying a massive world market for haemophiliacs . |
| 22 | I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope . |
| 23 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 24 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 25 | I announced his name at Reception , and the girl rang up the guy and said , ‘ Your taxi 's here … . ’ |
| 26 | The girl picked up the receiver , soap suds streaming on to its cover . |
| 27 | The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers . |
| 28 | This is quite patriotic of the poet — Owen then goes on to say that it is quite ironic how the sun woke up the world , started life yet it can not wake up this lifeless man , who is still warmblooded and full-nerved as Owen tell us here : |
| 29 | The next day the front page of the Sun took up the theme with enthusiasm : PORN LUST OF THE FOX ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 30 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |