Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] up the " in BNC.

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1 On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins .
2 I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice .
3 I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond .
4 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 :
5 ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam .
6 I just brought up the files .
7 but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though .
8 My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white !
9 When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings .
10 Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’
11 Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level .
12 I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use
13 What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ?
14 Colt went to the Khan Murjan in the old quarter only when someone else picked up the bill .
15 ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’
16 ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’
17 . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up .
18 No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one .
19 That 's the thing , apparent apparently I could n't even walk straight , and yet there 's me fucking climbing up the outside of a building , which to me sounds about right .
20 These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system .
21 The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes .
22 If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false .
23 In testing , a large number of sections or items which together make up the complete test .
24 Under the 1961 Constitution an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , as are the 49-member Senate and 196-member Chamber of Deputies which together make up the National Congress .
25 Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five .
26 When they arrive at the restaurant cash points they run their card through the machine which automatically flashes up the price and deducts the cost of their meal .
27 Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ?
28 More generalised disruptive markings which simply break up the broad shape of the body are found in the many spotted or striped species .
29 These act as an unnatural fertilizer for algae which then use up the oxygen in the water during their rapid growth .
30 I mean , why have you suddenly brought up the subject of Elise ? ’
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