Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent sprinted up the dock and spotted the President 's granddaughter . |
| 2 | On arrival , Stirling divided up the area between the two squadrons . |
| 3 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 4 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 5 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 6 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 7 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 8 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 9 | Lisa snatched up the phone , annoyed at her own forgetfulness . |
| 10 | It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage . |
| 11 | The line of boys and masters — Hasan and Rafiq bringing up the rear — made its way through pools of water and patches of sodden black earth , across the cinder track leading up towards the Windmill , and to the chestnut-trees , now almost empty of leaves , that shadow the edge of parkside . |
| 12 | Goran Ivanisevic , Michael Chang , Petr Korda , Boris Becker and Richard Krajicek make up the eight . |
| 13 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 14 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 15 | He had described as " a fraud " the recent attempts under KGB chairman Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov to clean up the KGB 's public image and stress its role in fighting genuine crime . |
| 16 | Manville played up the empathy he had established . |
| 17 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 18 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 19 | Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station . |
| 20 | Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff . |
| 21 | Schellenberg turned up the collar of his greatcoat and leaned back in the corner pulling the peak of his cap over his eyes . |
| 22 | At a recent meeting of the party 's Central Committee , President Gorbachev opened up the prospect of a future coalition government when he talked of ‘ equal possibilities for the Communist party and other political and social organisations . ’ |
| 23 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 24 | It was from here that the Stuarts sized up the potential of the area for exploitation . |
| 25 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 26 | Lucy walked up the fight of steps ; the plate glass doors slid open electronically as she crossed the beam . |
| 27 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 28 | Rex called up the menu once again . |
| 29 | Nellie pulled up the collar of her coat against the wind . |
| 30 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |