Example sentences of "up [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 2 | They want to run one up to see what the maximum speed is , well of course that 's gon na destroy it . |
| 3 | No matter how long he waited or how often he looked up to see who the latest arrival was , he knew in his heart of hearts it would n't be his son . |
| 4 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 5 | What with contributions to the housekeeping , the holiday was going to end up costing me the best part of £500 . |
| 6 | I 've grown up liking it the way it is , with the English art constantly juxtaposed with that from other places . |
| 7 | But it is very unlikely that enough super-delegates , more than a quarter of whom have already endorsed Clinton , would gang up to deny him the title . |
| 8 | For instance , I wanted to feed him on the baby food in jars and I keep telling her I do , but I end up feeding him the powdered food like my mum wants . |
| 9 | Yet against all these odds bigger crowds were coming to Elland Road , and the ground was smartened up to give it the image of a major sports centre . |
| 10 | When the woman put her hand up to protect herself the man grabbed two rings off her fingers but they were later recovered in the car . |
| 11 | When I went up to investigate it the floor caved in beneath me and I fell into the middle of all those nasty plants . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Celia came up to pay me the rent , mid-morning that 'd be . |