Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Apostles in mind , he has produced twelve wooden blocks , akin to children 's bricks , and lined them up on shelves . |
| 2 | I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos . |
| 3 | Men with nothing in their heads always filled them up with bits of women 's bodies . |
| 4 | He also handcuffed prisoners , swung them up on hooks and watched them dangle . |
| 5 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 6 | Ben made the first on-sight of Psycho ( ) and followed it up with on-sights of Genesis ( ) , Rainbow Wall ( ) , Your mother , Monument and Anarchiste ( all ) with Mark sharing the honours on Monument . |
| 7 | Traditionally , African beer is drunk from a large cup , passed round the groups of drinkers , but in this village they had a different technique : they brewed the stuff in an old oil drum and served it up in buckets . |
| 8 | She walked down street after street , always turning to the right , and pulled herself up among buses , and near a railway bridge . |
| 9 | It tied her up in knots . |
| 10 | How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ? |
| 11 | The machine cut the crop and tied it up in sheaves . |
| 12 | United 's game plan , with few refinements , is that which took them up behind Wolves in May : long balls from the back , incessant hustling in midfield , nine men behind the ball when the opposition have it . |
| 13 | So we took him up to Fountains Abbey ( one of Britain 's most famous monastic ruins ) . |
| 14 | Tore them up into strips . |
| 15 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 16 | He later gave himself up to police . |
| 17 | A four-hour siege has ended peacefully after an armed man gave himself up to police . |
| 18 | The next day he gave himself up to police . |
| 19 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 20 | AN ARMED miner gave himself up to police yesterday after a nine-hour underground protest over planned pit closures . |
| 21 | But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems . |
| 22 | Nanny in Peking murdered three-year-old in her care to avenge repeated rapes by the boy 's father , then gave herself up to police . |
| 23 | A group of burly Nottingham firemen even dressed themselves up in leotards and challenged a fitness group to a dancing lesson ! |
| 24 | Simon bought up the costume store and set himself up in premises in Southwark , under the name Snogogram International . |
| 25 | The two boys from the puritan villages of Wales set themselves up as hell-raisers to the world . |