Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the summer certain to be dominated ( again ) by sequels ( Legal Weapon 3 , Batman Returns , Alien³ ; , Honey I Blew Up The Kids ) , Hollywood pundits are keeping busy predicting this season 's sleeper hits . |
| 2 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 3 | In the car I rolled up the windows and screamed all the way to the Sawtelle Veteran 's Hospital in Los Angeles where we were filming . |
| 4 | He was , he said , threatened with murder ; and when he travelled round his diocese he was preceded by a troop of horse which broke up the illegal meetings . |
| 5 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 6 | Employees benefited from Homequity 's guaranteed home sale programme which speeded up the sale and purchase of properties in the old and new locations . |
| 7 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 8 | The Loch Ness and Morar Project itself picked up the threads of the Loch Ness Investigation ( LNI ) , which was founded by David James and Peter Scott in 1962 . |
| 9 | Stunned police hunting the maniacs who rigged up the deadly device said the 13-year-old should have been killed instantly . |
| 10 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 11 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 12 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 13 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 14 | As soon as I mentioned an Easter wedding they brought up the Royal . ’ |
| 15 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 16 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 17 | Anyway , that meant that the whole thing was top secret , because they did n't want to risk any leaks in case somebody followed up the work and got in first with a patent . ’ |
| 18 | The Finlay Committee which followed up the Shelmerdine report was charged with looking at ways of bringing about internationalization , and how the issue should be raised with the Dominions , the USA , and the USSR . |
| 19 | The committee which drew up the Act included a large representation from the Finnish National Board of Forestry . |
| 20 | The coach which picked up the Cedars ' children stopped about five minutes ' walk away from their home . |
| 21 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 22 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 23 | The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups . |
| 24 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 25 | Many of the elements which made up the relocation package applied equally to eligible staff moving from Kent and north London , for example , the payment of removal expenses , disturbance allowance and house expenses . |
| 26 | It was almost concealed by the small columns which held up the campanile roof , merely a shinier darkness in the dark . |
| 27 | In the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 206 the two transactions which threw up the profit , namely the purchase and resale of the certificates of deposit , both took place outside Hong Kong and this Board held that the profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong , notwithstanding the fact that all the instructions to buy and sell originated in Hong Kong and that there was no independent branch office interposed between the head office in Hong Kong and the following transactions . |
| 28 | The assembly instructions were all written to US specification which provided an interesting conversion problem for the youngsters who took up the challenge . |
| 29 | It was Dr. Joseph Thackeray , the newly appointed physician to the infirmary who took up the burden . |
| 30 | The story which most reminds me of animism ( if anything does ) is that of the angel who stirred up the pool of Bethesda ( John 5:1–15 ) . |