Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while they walked in silence , retracing their steps back up towards the house . |
| 2 | But the winners make up with the size of their winnings what they lack in numbers . |
| 3 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 4 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 5 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 6 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 7 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 8 | These lifts go up through the ceiling into the room above . |
| 9 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 10 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 11 | As Britain 's biggest book printer , his eyes light up at the mention of Labour 's proposals for an extra £10 per primary school child for books . |
| 12 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 13 | Kids come up in the street and say , ‘ Hey Mista Rick , how ya doin' ? ’ |
| 14 | Every night while the white kids queue up at the teen club Todd 's , or the new romantic Taboo , the black kids flock to the Music Institute for a dose of blinding strobes and pure , hard techno . |
| 15 | Contestants line up for the quiz . |
| 16 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 17 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 18 | The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit . |
| 19 | It 's the only one in Worcestershire — other real ale breweries set up in the county during the nineteen eighties have all since closed down . |
| 20 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 21 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 22 | So here 's the proof that not all one-miss blunders end up on the dole queue . |
| 23 | The sixty-four drawings and nineteen bozzetti and models lead up to the sculptures themselves forty-seven in all in both first and second versions . |
| 24 | Artists team up for the Roosevelt memorial |
| 25 | Houses run up in the courts of Birmingham in the 1820s and 1830s cost – ; 60 each to build . |
| 26 | But the more these greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere , the more heat is trapped and the more the Earth warms . |
| 27 | This happened at Stamford , also , though the buildings put up in the market place there formed irregular blocks . |
| 28 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 29 | Erm now er just just Philip just correct me er on the on the detail of this thing , er individuals pitch up at the tent , collect the collect the instructions |
| 30 | The Anglo Scotia lace factory was built around 1870 — a Gothic four-storey building of extravagant design for such a purpose , with castellated turrets and parapet recalling some of the fortress-like factories put up around the time of the Luddite riots . |