Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 2 | He also showed that the zeolite used as the exchanger could be regenerated with sodium to replace the calcium taken up during the softening cycle . |
| 3 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 4 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 5 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
| 6 | The rest of the sack matched up to the quality of manufacture and finish of the back system — as it should do at the price . |
| 7 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 8 | The failure of the insurgents to secure the country 's political and economic nerve-centres , the provision of German and Italian military aid and the resistance put up by the defenders of Republican legality had turned the insurrection into a war whose duration or outcome no one could foretell . |
| 9 | The clerk stared up at the clear blue sky . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 11 | ‘ The Führer came up with the idea . |
| 12 | The Labrador bounded up in the back seat , excited by familiar smells . |
| 13 | I found a quiet corner of the deck to gaze up at the moonless sky . |
| 14 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |
| 15 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 16 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 17 | The latest figures from the Home Office show that the largest of the 60 seizures of the drug made up to the end of June this year was 40 grammes in Nottingham . |
| 18 | Leaving Christian pulling on his boots with the intention of going to assist the gipsies , Seb made his way to the camp set up by the road-makers . |
| 19 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 20 | A row of thatched cottages is strung along the lane coming up from the sea and opens into a forecourt in the front and at the eastern side of the house . |
| 21 | The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck . |
| 22 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 23 | The light from a standard lamp caught the hair bubbling up through the open neck of his shirt and on the backs of his arms . |
| 24 | The story taken up in the press was of the interminable controversies in which the Cambridge English faculty has been embroiled : Leavis , Steiner , Kermode , now Derrida . |
| 25 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 26 | As though by an immaculately timed piece of theatre , the driver pulled up opposite the front entrance to New Scotland Yard . |
| 27 | The fight put up by the Health and Safety Commission to get more money saw niggardly extra funding at the end of the last year . |
| 28 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 29 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 30 | of the substance venial alanine it , the level rises up in the blood , it 's a bit like overfilling a jug , if you have a quarter pint jug and you have a pint of milk , when you get to the top you do n't stop pouring , it spills out the edge and in the body it actually goes into the body tissues , nowhere else to go and it causes a devastating result , it causes abnormal mental development , it causes gross retardation . |