Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 2 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 3 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 4 | If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it . |
| 5 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 6 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 7 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 8 | If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house . |
| 9 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |
| 10 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 11 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 12 | She moved when he came in , her shoulders sliding up the curved enamel , her breasts breaking the surface . |
| 13 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 14 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 15 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 16 | But all religions have had their mystical failures who have used their experiences to prop up the ego rather than transcend it and whose behaviour has been very odd indeed . |
| 17 | Food at Greenways is wholesome , fresh and plentiful ( Jill and Mike count on their guests working up a good appetite from walking ) with herbs and vegetables from the kitchen garden . |
| 18 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 19 | She was a war widow and worked round the clock in her efforts to bring up a young family by herself . |
| 20 | All the nationals except the Daily Star , which had been specifically based there by its owners to soak up the spare capacity left by their other declining title , the Daily Express , had either closed down , moved to London or drastically reduced their Manchester operations . |
| 21 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 22 | Outside Europe international finance would pool its resources to open up the biggest prize of all — the vast reservoir of cheap labour awaiting Western exploitation in China . |
| 23 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 24 | That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre , rather than on an obsolescent technology |
| 25 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 26 | Without warning a big estate-car swung round a bend in the lane , its wheels throwing up a shower of mud and water . |
| 27 | She knew that she could put economic pressure on her neighbours to build up a bloc of states aligned to herself . |
| 28 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 29 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 30 | A rag-tag convoy in half-tracks and armoured cars passed by City Hall , their outriders churning up the flower beds . |