Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
| 2 | But in a reply that summed up Ally McLeod 's capacity for humorous catastrophe the manager responded by saying , ‘ I told him several of our players smoke and it would be untruthful to back an anti-smoking campaign . ’ |
| 3 | She got out of the car and walked up Doris 's path , her back ramrod straight . |
| 4 | They got out of the car and walked up Sybil 's short drive . |
| 5 | And not to out done , the panda got out his own dictionary and looked up panda , one that eats , shoots then leaves ! |
| 6 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 7 | Shaven-headed Nationalists rolled a car on to its side and took up positions behind it . |
| 8 | artwork or pasted up material that is ready for reproduction . |
| 9 | I came out of the hillbilly punk scene that shook up LA , scene where you hung out with your contemporaries and viewed the established rockers with suspicion . |
| 10 | By December Gould had crossed the Liverpool Range and set up camp on the banks of the Mokai . |
| 11 | Bluebeard 's castle , it was , or Mr Fox 's manor house with ‘ Be bold , be bold but not too bold ’ written up over every lintel and chopped up corpses neatly piled in all the wardrobes and airing cupboards , on top of the sheets and pillowslips . |
| 12 | Led by a man named William Shorter , the gang had begun as a small group of poachers , their nickname derived from their dark clothing and blacked up faces for nocturnal raids in the forest . |
| 13 | ‘ Bobby McMillan assisted by Irene Neilson , rolled up his trouser legs , put on a tartan apron , scarf and beret , and squeezed a set of pipes improvised from flag pins , a pen and rolled up napkins , to demonstrate ! |
| 14 | He trained as an engraver but took up work with deaf people and became their missioner in Paisley , Scotland . |
| 15 | The resourceful youngster has overhauled the yacht and drummed up sponsors largely by himself . |
| 16 | I recrossed the gulley and picked up Time and the pamphlet . |
| 17 | ‘ We went into this basement and smashed up loads of glasses , tables , chairs — anything that was in the room — and recorded it , ’ whispers bearded , bass-playing vocalist Neil . |
| 18 | The ‘ naked ’ crab moved about 60 cm ( 2 ft ) away while the first crab nipped out of its damaged shell and took up residence in the new one . |
| 19 | We parked in the car park and picked up copies of the RSPB-designed trail leaflet at the Visitor Centre , a converted stone chapel . |
| 20 | Policemen , armed , filed out of the building and took up position . |
| 21 | This man went out with a pouch and gathered up owl-pellets , which he labelled , and later , took apart with forceps , bathed in glass beakers of various cleansing fluids , ordering and rearranging the orts and fragments of the owl 's compressed package of bone , tooth and fur , in order to reconstitute the dead shrew or slow-worm which had run , died , and made its way through owl-gut . |
| 22 | Abdel Basset Mohammad al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah are accused of planting the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988 , killing 270 people . |
| 23 | I was in the lower sixth , taking Maths , English General , and Biology , so I dropped the Biology and took up English with a tutor . |
| 24 | She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang . |
| 25 | Official sources claimed that John Garang , the commander of the " Torit faction " of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , and other leaders had escaped from the town and set up headquarters in Kajokaji , in the border region . |
| 26 | Two years later Clark had the first of his 25 Grand Prix wins at Spa and ended up runner-up in the World Championship to Graham Hill . |
| 27 | A Yorkshire mill-owner 's seventieth birthday is recorded as bringing ‘ callers all day , bringing little remembrances of flowers , fruit , etc ; ’ while a Kent farm labourer , on reaching the same age after 51 years on the same farm , was given a pension from a local charity and gave up work . |
| 28 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 29 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 30 | The troops gathered the Croats in the Franciscan monastery on Tuesday after Muslims overran the area and took up position on all sides . |