Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … or made up the answers , as you found on Sunday ? ’ |
| 2 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 3 | The railways also produced or speeded up the development of some of the early resort towns such as Skegness , Mablethorpe , Bournemouth , Swanage and Weston-super-Mare , and certainly allowed minor villages such as Cromer to become lesser resorts and ports such as Grimsby to be developed into major exporting centres . |
| 4 | The response of the existing publishers was traditional : they founded their own free weeklies or bought up the newcomers . |
| 5 | The kitchen with a small staff cooked or warmed up the men 's food free of charge . |
| 6 | Yeah you could u u or split up the to start . |
| 7 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 8 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 9 | A little way along , Vern stopped and sat on the very same wall and gazed up the gorge , like I 'd done , at the high flying bridge . |
| 10 | The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street . |
| 11 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |
| 12 | We reached the much photographed Nape 's Needle and skimmed up the short , yet difficult , chimney of boot-worn rock . |
| 13 | She put her nose high in the air and stalked up the garden . |
| 14 | She riddled the dust and made up the fire and said , ‘ You two make friends time that 's cooked . |
| 15 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 16 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 17 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They leaped down and charged up the shore , yelling triumphantly . |
| 20 | At a time when Japanese cars were a joke , his faith and perseverance founded the Nissan dealerships and built up the business . |
| 21 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 22 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 23 | They brought in the horses , hobbled them and built up the fire . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ( d. 1190 ) had established the German monarchy and built up the power of the emperor in the north to a hitherto unparalleled degree . |
| 26 | Lucier stood up , with his hand spread across his breastbone as if to protect his heart from the jolt , and weighed up the possibilities of escape . |
| 27 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 28 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 29 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 30 | It was her ‘ wait ’ and she sped down the stone staircase ahead of the lumbering old man and snatched up the receiver . |