Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Employees benefited from Homequity 's guaranteed home sale programme which speeded up the sale and purchase of properties in the old and new locations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | As soon as I mentioned an Easter wedding they brought up the Royal . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The committee which drew up the Act included a large representation from the Finnish National Board of Forestry . |
| 12 | The coach which picked up the Cedars ' children stopped about five minutes ' walk away from their home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was Dr. Joseph Thackeray , the newly appointed physician to the infirmary who took up the burden . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | I remind the hon. Lady who set up the National Rivers Authority . |
| 17 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 18 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 19 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |
| 20 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 21 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 22 | Just for that you can start again , from the moment you climbed up the mooring rope . ’ |
| 23 | THE Japanese tycoon who dreamt up the Sony Walkman has been awarded an honorary knighthood . |
| 24 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 25 | In the logbook at the Climbers ' Club 's May Cottage we wrote up the details and history of all climbing activity in Range West . |
| 26 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 27 | The night I went up the bus was n't due to leave until 11 PM , so I left my luggage with the bus station and went for a meal . |
| 28 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 29 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 30 | As I told the board before their meeting with the Receiver , the blame lies solely with the person who dreamt up the idea , namely Chester Bence . |