Example sentences of "it [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undramatic in its effect and narrow in its scope , highly forgettable and often forgotten by historians , it made up the bulk of parliamentary business . |
| 2 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 3 | She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace . |
| 4 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 5 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 6 | ‘ It gobbled up the bird in one go , ’ said a mournful bird-watcher yesterday . |
| 7 | Hello my name 's Winsy insy spider climb up the spout , down came the rain and washed Winsy out , when the sun came out it dried up the rain , insy , winsy spider climbed up again thank you , oh thank you , oh thank you , I know , thank you , well , today , at midday today it 's going to be tipping down with rain and winsy , winsy , winsy , spider will fall down the rain , |
| 8 | I lost a lot of pictures , but it opened up the night-time for me and I felt that the mood came out . |
| 9 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 10 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 11 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |
| 12 | Coming so soon after the fiasco of Barricades Week , it opened up the prospect of new opportunities in foreign policy and reinforced a determination on de Gaulle 's part to liquidate the Algerian problem as soon as possible , even at the expense of major concessions to the FLN and its government-in-exile , the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic or GPRA . |
| 13 | It showed up the Achilles heel of the government — its excessively dictatorial tendencies . |
| 14 | This exercise was perhaps most illuminating in the way in which it showed up the nerve ( or lack of it ) of the existing contractors ’ managements ; and the results demonstrated the inherent impossibility of combining apparently objective cash criteria with inevitably subjective judgements of quality . |
| 15 | It broke up the crew and left the cameraman shaking underneath his camera . |
| 16 | His North Sea assault gave the environmentalists a powerful and unique spokesman ; it made the government sit up and take notice ; and it speeded up the long and painful process of making the public aware that there was a very real problem to solve , which was going to involve personal sacrifices . |
| 17 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 18 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 19 | It cleaned up the European Car of the Year award for 1992 against some formidable competition , though only two out of the seven British judges gave it top ranking . |
| 20 | The train consisted of Cambrian 4-wheelers headed by a ‘ Seaham ’ class 2-4-0 and it proceeded up the Tanat Valley . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was located on Ocean Drive , between C and D ; it took up the entire block . |
| 23 | The bottom end of the rope was fixed to the back of the van and it took up the slack and held the tree in tension to give the saw ease of movement . |
| 24 | The first taste was fresh and innocuous , then it lit up the throat with a burst of sunshine : it hit the gut with a throb of heat . |
| 25 | It lit up the night sky above the East End of Glasgow like a burning city that was never consumed , every night flaring up again and again with a distant tumult of mountains of slag and iron , drinking the cold air and casting their baleful glow on the clouds that spread over the Valley of Pandemonium . |
| 26 | Having done this , I noticed all the more the effect of the pale light coming into the room and the way it lit up the edges of my father 's craggy , lined , still awesome features . |
| 27 | The trip was hazardous , as bilge-water created a stability problem and the Coastguard searchlight was now a hindrance as it lit up the flying spray . |
| 28 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 29 | Then , while the right hand wrote on , it conjured up the pack of cigarettes once again , conjured one out , and conjured a flame out of a butane lighter it suddenly turned out to be holding . |
| 30 | ‘ The Worm — it tore up the earth , ’ said Mrs Lomax . |