Example sentences of "up [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 2 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 3 | He 'd most likely end up eating the grain he 'd nicked from Mrs Wright for the pheasants . |
| 4 | Inspector comes in — up goes the radio to the ventilator out of sight . |
| 5 | Up goes the telescope , you 're lying there you know , and the doctor told me , he said , Do you wan na watch ? |
| 6 | A tap is turned , a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch applied to the piston , and up goes the end of the coach as easily as though it were a doll 's house . |
| 7 | Up goes the axe . |
| 8 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 9 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |
| 10 | We looked up to see the tree limbs rippling with leather and fur . |
| 11 | I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored . |
| 12 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 13 | I get far enough up to see the house and identify it by its position and the garden furniture , then I climb back down , go to the wall and jump up , catching hold of the concrete ridge tiles on top of the wall and pulling myself up . |
| 14 | The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat . |
| 15 | He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume . |
| 16 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 17 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 18 | All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest ! |
| 19 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 20 | A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures . |
| 21 | Kazakhstan 's President Nazarbayev , however , pointed out in an interview after the close of the summit that no executive or supervisory bodies had been set up to monitor the implementation of the agreements reached there . |
| 22 | They may land up building the centre outside Europe — in Silicon Valley or Tokyo . |
| 23 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 24 | Heaving up to gasp the air |
| 25 | But whilst Mackenzie carried on and ended up editing the Sun , Sutton began to question what he was doing . |
| 26 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 27 | Accordingly the court decided that VAT was payable on these charges and could not be reclaimed from Customs and Excise if the customer did not show up to claim the room . |
| 28 | you 're saying to it 's logical conclusion , then why do n't we just erm , open up Hampden up sell the stuff there , you know people , you know , if children want it or adults |
| 29 | In 1987 the Dragon Project Trust was set up to continue the work of the project and to study effects on consciousness at sites where specific geophysical anomalies have been noted . |
| 30 | Mr Cottle looked up to acknowledge the reaction to this information , but at once looked down again when he saw Mungo and Emily grinning at each other . |