Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 2 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 3 | Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around . |
| 4 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 5 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 6 | However , we climbed up a little way , just to get off the road . |
| 7 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 8 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 9 | Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling . |
| 10 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 11 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 12 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 13 | The customer turned up the same day and wanted changes made . |
| 14 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 15 | A woman got up a few rows back , and threw the hood off her head . |
| 16 | The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills ; Carson walked up a few steps near the end of the alley and pushed open the door of a tradesman 's entrance . |
| 17 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 18 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 19 | A director of one licensed dealer rang up a former employee working for a stockbrokers , addressing him as follows : " You took our clients with you , you little shit . |
| 20 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 21 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 22 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 23 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 24 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 25 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 26 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ The NEB … sent up a few people to take samples and they produced an interim report on the levels of radioactivity in the area . |
| 28 | A breath of cold , fresh air wafted over his face , as the heavy wooden square eased up a few inches . |
| 29 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 30 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |