Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 3 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 4 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 5 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
| 6 | So prolific was my perspiration I steamed up the viewfinder , and I imagine my acquaintance now possesses a fine set of prints featuring the edge of my thumb and some clouds . |
| 7 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 8 | I zipped up the flaps , not daring to show my anger . |
| 9 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 10 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 11 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 12 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 13 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 14 | I got home , I phoned up the police , and they say , ‘ Oh , no , we do n't know anything about any road blocks . ’ |
| 15 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 16 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 17 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 18 | I drew up the list , you 've got it written in there . |
| 19 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 20 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 21 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 22 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 23 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 24 | So I pedalled up the Via San Pietro . |
| 25 | A can of Tetleys Bitter never tasted better as Jim and I soaked up the sun burning its way through the Californian coastal mist . |
| 26 | I raced up the Stuart Highway at 180 kph ; there were few travellers and the only signs of wildlife were the customary dead kangaroos . |
| 27 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 28 | Then I climbed up the rope myself . |
| 29 | While I was there I climbed up the suspension cables to the top of the mainland tower and looked around . |
| 30 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |