Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 2 | ‘ A phone call , a word dropped into the right ear about how you fouled up the Norwood & Chambers contract … ’ |
| 3 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 4 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 7 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 8 | ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said . |
| 9 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 10 | How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ? |
| 11 | The , the , the anomaly here this is when they set up the C C T legislation , all the services contracted out had to make a of return that 's a profit in any language and that to me is a commercial decision and should never have been exempted from the very start anyway . |
| 12 | That 's where they set up the umm these things for these |
| 13 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |
| 14 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 15 | Mm I mean , you know when he gave up the drink |
| 16 | He ran along the carpeted passage and into the drawing-room where he picked up the phone without speaking . |