Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the managers who drew up the articles of impeachment of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Lucier stood up , with his hand spread across his breastbone as if to protect his heart from the jolt , and weighed up the possibilities of escape . |
| 3 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 4 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 5 | As we climbed up the crags of Petra , black goats eyed us warily from black holes . |
| 6 | That may be the norm , but , of course , there is also the abnorm when things go wrong , when the fire gets out of control , when , perhaps , the fire brigade has been over worked , or could n't find their way for cigarette smoke , or for all that saturated fat that clogged up the wheels of their tenders . |
| 7 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 8 | Wycliffe turned up the reports of telephone enquiries made among Francis 's customers to find Kevin Brand of The School of Occult Studies , Carn Fellow , near Penzance . |
| 9 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 10 | It also showed up the disasters of previous patterns of so-called neighbourhood planning . |
| 11 | That last evening , as unable to settle I wandered round the house , the computer within which insists on running hither and thither matching like with like ( laying its finds before us like a cat presenting a dead mouse ) now threw up the words of a hymn from long ago . |
| 12 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 13 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 14 | Then a fountain-pen needle stitched up the lips of the wound in a neat blue herringbone pattern . |
| 15 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 16 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 17 | She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door . |
| 18 | She packed up the remains of the bread and cheese they had had for supper , and then watched as he clipped poles together and hammered in pegs ; within minutes the flimsy little structure was up and ready . |
| 19 | He smashed up the nests of the Birds of Paradise , and flew off laughing . |
| 20 | When Maxim hoped he had finished , Lomax glanced at Agnes , then said : ‘ They brought up the Rules of Engagement business , then ? |
| 21 | Aunt Kit sat down on a tin trunk , rolled up the sleeves of her gown , and looked at me . |
| 22 | He confronted savages on tropical shores , quelled mutinies on the high seas , and in a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men . |
| 23 | Jim had not in ‘ a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men ’ . |
| 24 | Dr Groome tapped up the images of Ida Lupino in High Sierra , Shelley Winters in A Double Life and Gloria Grahame in Crossfire . |
| 25 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 26 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |
| 27 | Manchester had modest arrangements with Macclesfield and Winsford ; Liverpool had major schemes at Winsford ( again ) and Ellesmere Port ; Wolverhampton built at Wednesfield and Seisdon ; Salford had a major involvement with Worsley ; Newcastle upon Tyne expanded at Killingworth and Cramlington ; Bristol utilized Warmley ; and Walsall also took up the provisions of the Act . |
| 28 | Another son-in-law , Richard Barnett , on Thornton 's retirement in 1817 , took up the reins of management and was still running the Guildford and Oxford theatres on the circuit until almost mid-century . |
| 29 | Herbert Read in his book Education through Art took up the categories of types put forward by Jung . |
| 30 | She heaved up the handles of the barrow and the remaining contents slid neatly home . |