Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |
| 2 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 5 | Another statistic in the joyriding craze ; a stolen Astra driven up the M5 at 100 mph , then crashed into this oncoming car . |
| 6 | " Yon " just happened to be three WAAFs toiling up the brae each with a kit bag . |
| 7 | With the deaths of Parent and Brassey in 1870 Buddicom wound up the partnership . |
| 8 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 9 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 10 | Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly brought up the rear . |
| 11 | Some of the discipline went out of the play , but as others tired Jess picked up the pace of the game and finished looking as likely as match-winner as anyone . |
| 12 | But in 1908 Edison set up the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ) , which included among its aims an increase in the share of the US market taken by domestic productions . |
| 13 | After that Jack gave up the skiing altogether and I took it very steady . |
| 14 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 15 | Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides . |
| 16 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 17 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 18 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 19 | The producer Ben Kadish thought that if he could get the ‘ hot ’ Hoffman to play opposite her , he would be able to convince Twentieth Century-Fox to put up the money and release it . |
| 20 | While Carl Fogarty took the big race of the day the Superbike , young Dunlop scooped up the smaller classes by landing both 250cc races as well as the 125cc , thus making up for his disappointment of last year when he scored only one win against Phillip McCallen 's five . |
| 21 | I wondered what inspired the young Phillips to pick up the guitar ? |
| 22 | After that Gloucestershire gobbled up the middle order . |
| 23 | From 1624 to 1640 Dutton bought up the land round Sherborne Park in order to create a deer park , to be enclosed by a high wall . |
| 24 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |
| 25 | In 1988 McBain set up The Electronic Studio , a technology and business systems specialist . |
| 26 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |