Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
| 2 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 3 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 4 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 5 | Before initiating an incident , you weighed up the pros and cons of the costs in time . |
| 6 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But despite his willingness to collaborate with this tall , blond , handsome editor and publisher with his square , even teeth invariably clamped over fat Turkish cigarettes and whose ice-blue eyes sometimes narrowed as he weighed up the profit or nuisance value of a potential contributor , Vaughan regarded Lehmann critically , detecting mistrust and calculation behind the editor 's apparent kindness and friendliness . |
| 9 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 10 | The crowd caught up the shout and Jess felt excitement run through her . |
| 11 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 12 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 13 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 14 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 15 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 16 | A local thug phoned up the office and said ‘ tell them if they set foot in Drogheda they wo n't get out alive ’ . |
| 17 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
| 18 | As Blanche snatched up the telephone and listened to the reassuring hum of the dialling tone , she caught sight of herself in the mirror on the wall : the shimmer of sweat on her forehead , eyes wild , face haggard and pale , hair stormy and unkempt , knuckles bruised and sore . |
| 19 | He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat . |
| 20 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 21 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |
| 22 | Her dress fastened up the front and she began to undo the buttons . |
| 23 | February was wet , with gales that howled up the valley and rattled the glass doors leading to the verandah . |
| 24 | and er filled up the lamps and all that you know . |
| 25 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 26 | Frequency of the trains had been increased but the swollen crowds filled up the tunnels and the escalators at the interchanges . |
| 27 | Encountering little resistance , they sailed up the Thames and destroyed some of the most powerful fighting ships of the Royal Navy moored at Chatham docks and towed away some others . |
| 28 | She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes . |
| 29 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |
| 30 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |