Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then the twisty little mouth twitched and the twitch travelled up the cheeks , the eyebrows wriggled and the blue eyes danced like sunlit water . |
| 32 | The Chairman summed up the changes succinctly : |
| 33 | The more North built up the contras in secret , the more he fretted that liberal Democrats in Congress ( ’ Kerry , Barnes , Harkin et al . ’ ) |
| 34 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |
| 35 | When the factory started up the women 's group dissipated . |
| 36 | To make matters worse , peculiar pinky glows of static electricity lit up the mastheads and rigging of the ship with an unearthly light . |
| 37 | The boatman tucked up the skirts of his galabeah , hooked his knees over the gunwale and leaned far back over the side . |
| 38 | One respondent in the Yorkshire survey summed up the difficulties : ‘ One has to recognise that the pressures on consultants are increasing steadily — workload , management , teaching , financial control , reduction of juniors ’ hours … |
| 39 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 40 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 41 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |
| 42 | After the harvest Kāli brought up the cows to graze the stubble and fertilize the fields for next year 's buckwheat crop . |
| 43 | ‘ Thallium , ’ you said , ‘ job for you ! ’ and thallium picked up the papers , simpered , and went out into the world to do your bidding . |