Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The darker ‘ skunk-stripe ’ of walnut in the back of the neck covered up the rear installation of the truss rod . |
| 2 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 3 | By the kindest count , seven catches were grassed at Auckland , and six more chances were spilled on this opening day , with Gooch missed twice off Cairns before reaching double figures , after a 90-minute delay while the groundstaff mopped up the previous day 's heavy rain . |
| 4 | One study summed up the overall situation as follows : |
| 5 | The first watcher picked up the red phone nearby and punched out three digits . |
| 6 | Since that time , and despite further hostilities in 1965 , the 1949 ceasefire line or " line of control " had separated Azad Kashmir ( " Free Kashmir " — the northern Pakistani-controlled sector ) from Indian-administered Kashmir , which together with Jammu further to the south made up the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir . |
| 7 | Anabelle watched from under the gate while the boy snatched up the huge bowl and dashed into the house . |
| 8 | Over those years accumulation built up the phenomenal momentum which it was to sustain through the sixties . |
| 9 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 10 | Her impression of a bleak , high-ceilinged room was confirmed when she entered : the hall took up the top two storeys of the three-storey building . |
| 11 | Out of the window the setting sun lit up the perfect whiteness of the Caucasus mountains ; a party of Austrian holidaymakers was down there somewhere , getting in some good skiing . |
| 12 | The rising sun lit up the topmost stones of the Pyramid , and Flaubert , looking down at his feet , noticed a small business-card pinned in place . |
| 13 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 14 | Ranging on her side , a flare from the window lit up the coarse , reddening features , followed immediately by the uncouth clatter of the skies , echoing her strident voice . |
| 15 | Then the Judge picked up the stiff body of the student in his arms . |
| 16 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 17 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |
| 18 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 19 | This insight opened up the whole world of aromatic organic chemistry . |
| 20 | ALEXANDRE NADOBENKO of the Kazakhstan team powered up the cobbled William Brown Street for victory at the end of the 116-miles 10th stage of the 1,150-mile Milk Race from Sheffield to Liverpool yesterday . |
| 21 | The teacher took up the remaining bangle and , throwing it into the water , said , ‘ It is there . ’ ’ |
| 22 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 23 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 24 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 25 | Yet another rarity turned up the other day and which I illustrate here . |
| 26 | A second charge over the side brought no more response than the first , and a rising moon showed up the wild seascape . |
| 27 | Just as she had said , the porter 's wife opened up the main door and the inner gate from her room and then poked her head out . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 29 | His wife rang up the following day . |
| 30 | The silver ball sped up the slight incline lighting up the Bakelite mushrooms as it struck them , ricocheting back and forwards , up and down , before vanishing down the hole in the corner . |