Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 2 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 3 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 4 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 5 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 6 | And it looks as though it 's picked up the middle page . |
| 7 | Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’ |
| 8 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 9 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 10 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 11 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 12 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 13 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 14 | From the same papyri we learn that the Ptolemies had picked up the well-known Sheikh of Transjordan , Tobiah , to command the military settlers in his territory . |
| 15 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 16 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
| 17 | Below the soft throb of the music , his increased sense of hearing had picked up the quiet click of the outer door to his private suite being closed . |
| 18 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 19 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 20 | The doctor had rolled up the dead woman 's sleeves to examine her arms . |
| 21 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 22 | Ebenezer was dimly aware that he was being carried up the narrow staircase . |
| 23 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 24 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 25 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
| 26 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 27 | This method is also ideal if you have to reknit a neckband or have sewn up the second shoulder in error . |
| 28 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |
| 29 | After Rhydoldog , Jane was invited to undertake a second phase of decoration at Remaisnil and , as one of her first gestures , removed a series of framed modern posters which Bernard had positioned up the main stairway ; the focus of the hallway henceforth was a magnificent eighteenth-century Brussels tapestry . |
| 30 | This had built up the present balance to what it now was . |