Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 2 | TriStar Pictures snapped up the rights after persuading Julia , 25 , to take the part . |
| 3 | Frequency of the trains had been increased but the swollen crowds filled up the tunnels and the escalators at the interchanges . |
| 4 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 5 | His drive towards restructuring higher education along egalitarian lines opened up the colleges to those from less privileged ‘ proletarian ’ backgrounds and those who showed the correct political disposition . |
| 6 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 7 | The questionnaire responses backed up the interviews : Textbooks have moved ahead in importance : worksheets are less popular . |
| 8 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 9 | When the land was elevated , and the climate improved , the arctic plants retreated up the mountainsides in order to remain in an environment similar to that from which they had been derived . |
| 10 | Call for new inquiry into plane disaster : Marc Champion in Washington explains why some investigators suspect the US and Canadian governments hushed up the reasons for a 1985 plane crash |
| 11 | Kāli swept up the drifts of flour and , scooping it up in her limply cold hands , crammed it back into the bag . |
| 12 | The boyfriends of the girls made up the numbers . |
| 13 | What happened in Panama was that when the other 50 photographers showed up the Americans went on some mock patrols in some neighbourhoods where there was nothing ; it was basically a photo-op for the press . |
| 14 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 15 | Mothers cleared up the remnants of picnics . |
| 16 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 17 | We watched the gardeners sweeping them into piles and the children swept up the leaves too . |
| 18 | Prior to independence many local authorities topped up the amounts the polytechnics received from central government and from fees : the total addition to resources from topping up was between £60 million and £70 million a year . |
| 19 | Posi gave the warning — spacecraft approaching — and the screens flashed up the images . |
| 20 | The weight lessened as the Twins climbed up the cables . |