Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coleraine suddenly stepped up a gear in the last 20 minutes of normal time , a gear no-one , least of all Ards , believed they had . |
| 2 | The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties . |
| 3 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 4 | As was only to be expected , the Tory press eagerly took up the cry . |
| 5 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 6 | He took 2–38 in 10 overs , and eagerly snapped up a chance offered by Graham Gooch off Peter Martin . |
| 7 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 8 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 10 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 11 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 12 | Warriors including Ollokot meanwhile scampered up the slope and mounted a defensive fire into the soldiers ' flanks from improvised rifle-pits . |
| 13 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
| 14 | Just rang up the Dial-a-ticket but there 's no news as to when the tickets for the Oxford match are available . |
| 15 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 16 | I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton . |
| 17 | Based mainly on the above elements , Barron 's claims one of three possibilities : ( 1 ) Gravier intentionally blew up the airplane ; ( 2 ) He slipped out of the Falcon during a refuelling stop leaving a bomb hidden in the airplane ; ( 3 ) He was killed ( presumably at a fuel stop ) prior to the crash and whoever did it told the pilots he was asleep . |
| 18 | Under the guise of outrage , the Daily Post self-righteously took up the story , forcing the other Fleet Street newspapers to follow suit . |
| 19 | World prices for Arabian light grade had dropped by around $4.50 per barrel since October 1991 , to about $18.50 , at a time when the onset of winter in the northern hemisphere would normally have increased demand and thus shored up the price . |
| 20 | When Richard finally took up the scrip and staff of a pilgrim , the latter broke under him . |
| 21 | ‘ So you just dreamt up a message ? |
| 22 | The lattice windows which Hazlitt remembered were replaced by sashes when the Coleridges finally gave up the cottage at the end of 1799 |
| 23 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 24 | His own worst experience ‘ in the past year , anyway ’ involved a Friday 7pm service from Kings Cross that started late , had no buffet car , and after more stops than the Minster organ finally gave up the ghost at Doncaster . |
| 25 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 26 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 27 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 28 | We soon gave up the hunt . |
| 29 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 30 | Lady Dorothy soon struck up a friendship with Sir William Hooker [ q.v. ] at Kew , with whom she exchanged plants and letters ; and the relationship continued with his son and successor , Sir Joseph Hooker [ q.v . ] . |