Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 2 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 3 | Something come up there onto the brink of the gulf , |
| 4 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 5 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 6 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 7 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 8 | She hummed a tune and pretended to care about tasting a fragment of fish she 'd pinched up out of the herby broth . |
| 9 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 10 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 11 | Like one of those European taxis that you get picked up in at the airport in Paris . ’ |
| 12 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 13 | It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland ! |
| 14 | The excess sail is rolled up neatly around the mast out of the way and still I 've good a good sail shape . |
| 15 | You were rolled up tight as a mummy in canvas , then water was poured on it . |
| 16 | He was shaking hands now with the woman , who was the exact antithesis of her niece , being thin and bony ; even her arms , showing bare where she had her sleeves rolled up almost to the armpits , looked fleshless . |
| 17 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 18 | He had been born in Tucupita and had grown up there in the region of Venezuela where the great Paraqua river met the Orinoco and flowed into the Delta of the Orinoco where the sea moved on to Trinidad . |
| 19 | Er the thing is that the people in the northeast yes er there is a lot more work done up there by the Society but you know since I 've been down in Horsham I have found that the northeast is not alone . |
| 20 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 21 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
| 22 | Later , more complex constructions were built up further with a drum upon the pendentives , pierced by windows in the sides to light the building beneath , and the dome surmounted this drum ( ‘ F' ) . |
| 23 | The acceptance of the tax cut in the House last month , against the wishes of Democratic leaders , has used up much of the good will cautiously built up earlier in the year for a medium-term , bipartisan deficit-cutting campaign . |
| 24 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 25 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
| 26 | It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press . |
| 27 | ‘ Great Mates ’ The Blockheads ( they of Ian Dury And … ) once turned up unexpectedly at a Clash recording session dressed as policemen , causing Mick Jones to flush all his illicit substances down the toilet and the rest of the band to flee . |
| 28 | They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting . |
| 29 | In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland . |
| 30 | There was a stirring , a sense that at any minute the branches over his head might dip over him and brush his face , or that the roots that had thrust up out of the earth might wriggle and become alive and twine themselves about his feet . |