Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 2 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 3 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 4 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 5 | In January 1990 the UN Security Council agreed to extend the mandate for a further two months of the detachment of 40 officers from 10 countries making up the UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( UNGOMAP ) , created to monitor the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as well as other aspects of the Geneva Accords of 1988 . |
| 6 | Would it be far-fetched then to see Susan , if she were at home ringing up the Gay Byrne Radio Show to tell him what she saw ? |
| 7 | Continue to Quebec City , an old walled city divided into two parts : the picturesque old quarter built entirely on a cliff , and the lower town spreading up the St. Charles River Valley . |
| 8 | The city streets were so congested with vehicles it was a slow process getting up the Strand , and in winter horse manure was apt to splash up unpleasantly . |
| 9 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 10 | The Caribbean islands present a slight complication to this simple picture of a single volcanic chain running up the Americas . |
| 11 | Un the side of the road climbing up the Oa , at Cragabus , a much disturbed cist of three chambers contained unburnt human bones and a few pot sherds . |
| 12 | Britain , France , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed a treaty selling up the Brussels Treaty Organisation for mutual military aid . |
| 13 | It used to be said that any salmon running up the Dee made a one-way journey . |
| 14 | In 1611 he was consulted by Londoners setting up the Londonderry plantation , and showed positive interest in joining an oil-milling venture there . |
| 15 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |
| 16 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |
| 17 | GGT 's string of new business wins continued this week with the agency picking up the Cussons personal care account . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , ’ he says , ‘ here are the Waylands coming up the Parkway to call on Charles Aught … |
| 19 | Throughout the centuries , the monks of Clonmacnoise had suffered from raiders sailing up the Shannon to plunder the monastic city . |
| 20 | The white car with its half glimpsed driver 's familiar face accelerating up the Julians ’ drive haunted her . |