Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tree in the forest , where he sealed up the dybbuk … ’ |
| 2 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 3 | no , not yet , I 've seen the beginning where he set up the and that |
| 4 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 5 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 6 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 7 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 8 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 9 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 10 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 11 | This could have had unfortunate consequences , so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach . |
| 12 | In 1908 the Standard was not printing photographs and , although it took up the art form in the 1920 's and it is a curiosity to learn that the first photograph it published to do with the Club was in fact of the Opening Match , but 50 years after the event . |
| 13 | ‘ My lipstick fell out of my bag , you see , and he trod on it — not on the carpet , thank heaven ! — so he picked up the mangled remains and asked if he could get me another . |
| 14 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 15 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
| 16 | But he was told that he would have to pay rent for the land until the end of time , so he gave up the idea . |
| 17 | Nevertheless he was determined to do his bit , so he gave up the firewood business and went back to the casting shop to make shell cases . |
| 18 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 19 | You 'd kill me if I blew up the school ? |
| 20 | Until I plucked up the courage to go out by myself . |
| 21 | He did n't move until I picked up the poker . |
| 22 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 23 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 24 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 25 | Cos she ran up the garden . |
| 26 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 27 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 28 | If you went up the railway embankment at night , he said , you could look straight into the window of the room Uncle Titch had given her and see her getting undressed . |
| 29 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 30 | But Brian Horton kept it in his office and said that he could n't have it until everybody stepped up the game a little bit , and they stopped conceding goals . |