Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 2 | ECHO chief photographer Stephen Shakeshaft found himself in the middle of a real cat and mouse game right in the heart of the city as he caught up with cartoon characters Tom and Jerry . |
| 3 | Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home . |
| 4 | Johnson moved up from youth coach to take temporary charge . |
| 5 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 6 | It is a three-dimensional , fibrous structure , built up of protein blocks which the tanning process makes resistant to putrefaction and softens to a degree that suits the end use . |
| 7 | For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point . |
| 8 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 9 | It 's the legacy of the amazing squad built up by club owner Silvio Burlusconi , the Italian tycoon for whom money is no object . |
| 10 | They rely on an enormous amount of research capital ; that is , the expertise and knowledge built up by research workers or teams and on the body of knowledge generated by others who have undertaken previous studies . |
| 11 | The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero . |
| 12 | Living about 12 miles from our nearest store my discount is largely , if not completely , used up by fuel costs and this is made worse by the fact that I live within two miles of two competitor stores . |
| 13 | In the National Liberal Club last night , party activists were busy savouring the mathematic soup stirred up by television exit polls as they waited for the results to roll in . |
| 14 | ‘ IN the middle of the night , I woke up with gripey pains low down in my abdomen , rather like a stomach upset . |
| 15 | The next month they drove up to Blood Rock . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 18 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 19 | It was no different in the occupied West Bank where the protesters soon came up against army reinforcements . |
| 20 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 21 | The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately . |
| 22 | The military government is reported to have begun granting timber concessions to logging companies in areas opened up by oil company roads . |
| 23 | One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket . |
| 24 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 25 | No patients turned up for evening surgery , but , for once , that was not depressing . |
| 26 | Some time ago I turned up at Broadcasting House to meet someone for lunch . |
| 27 | When the last shot had been fired and the troops left for the United States , many GIs turned up at embarkation points with loyal canine friends concealed in their kit bags . |
| 28 | The flat was owned by Mick 's grandmother , who regularly turned up at Clash gigs . |
| 29 | ‘ Prof ’ Francis always turned up at celebrity concerts and was often able to slip into an empty seat at intermission . |
| 30 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |