Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 2 | Due to my forward speed the mat and my feet ended up under the AOC 's desk at the same time saluted , and my Wolseley sun helmet sped to the opposite corner of the room . |
| 3 | we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . |
| 4 | All their trumpets tilted up from the ground , as if together they were sounding a blast to the sky . |
| 5 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 6 | For thousands of children who spend their days locked up in the shanty towns while their parents work , the streets offer freedom and escape from domestic violence as well as a springboard to prostitution or petty crime . |
| 7 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |
| 8 | Hunting , disturbance , and pesticide residues had all played their part ; but the major culprits were river boards and their successors which scoured the banks of undergrowth in which otters lay up during the day , and felled the mighty riverside trees , such as ash and sycamore , in whose buttress roots otters made their holts . |
| 9 | The canals whose routes connected up to the major ports carried Britain 's exports to the coast and brought imported raw materials inland . |
| 10 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 11 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 12 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 13 | After turning the sausages and prodding the briquettes again he rested his arms on the railing and looked out over Central Park , his eyes screwed up against the sun even though he was wearing a pair of prescription sunglasses . |
| 14 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 15 | And when the Captain-General and his men turned up in the afternoon — all in polished armour , and bearing a gaudy new flag adorned with the arms of Castile and Leon and a Madonna and Child — they were dismayed ? embarrassed ? horrified ? amused ? ( history does not record ) to find no sea in sight ; just hundreds of yards of black and rank-smelling mud . |
| 16 | His accusations backed up with the evidence found by Craig would be enough to convict Spencer and send him to prison for some time , once his whereabouts were discovered , for Spencer seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 17 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |
| 18 | If you want to spend your Sundays curled up on the sofa , watching television , and having a few drinks , why not ? |
| 19 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 20 | Most of our clothes ended up on the floor , and Corporal Fleicher , a tall German , went round hitting people in the stomach to see how firm their abdominal muscles were . |