Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 2 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 3 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 4 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 5 | In the 1770s a wing was added at the back , and once again the house rose up the social scale . |
| 6 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 7 | An official of the Association of British Insurers , which drew up the new insurance ratings , conceded that the structure , which is due to be introduced on July 1 , is being revised ‘ almost daily . ’ |
| 8 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 9 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 10 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 11 | A Shrewsbury architect , Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , had the idea and drew up the original plan , but the design was modified in the process of building the bridge . |
| 12 | In September 1948 , a committee , chosen by the assembly , drew up the Basic Law which laid the foundation of a constitution , the main legislative body ( Bundestag ) with nearly five hundred members elected every four years , and an upper house ( Bundesrat ) of forty-five members composed of representatives of the state government . |
| 13 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 14 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 15 | First-time guests peered up the dark oak staircase to the gallery murmuring , ‘ Mrs Danvers , ’ under their breath . |
| 16 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 17 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Over those years accumulation built up the phenomenal momentum which it was to sustain through the sixties . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 22 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 23 | Anabelle watched from under the gate while the boy snatched up the huge bowl and dashed into the house . |
| 24 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 25 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 26 | He made a dash for the table , snatched up the boiled egg and stuffed it into his pocket . |
| 27 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 28 | Quickly he went down the ladder , crossed the kitchen and snatched up the top one of a pile of washed sacks from behind the kitchen door . |
| 29 | Julie snatched up the heavy skillet and swung it with all her strength . |
| 30 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |