Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patricia Whitaker-Dowling , David Wilcox , Christopher Widnell and Julius Youngner at Pittsburgh University have shown that interferon can prevent viruses from getting inside animal cells , and they believe that this might be the first line of defence set up by the interferon system in response to viral attack ( Proceedings of the U.S . |
| 2 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 3 | The French were delighted with the brave show of resistance put up at the disastrous GATT talks in December 1990 . |
| 4 | The Town Clerk wrote the letter of acceptance on 8th June , and a Scheme of Administration drawn up by the Charity Commissioners , now involved because of the change in status of the School , was ratified at Stockport County Court on 20th January 1860 . |
| 5 | A Plan of Action drawn up for the conference was estimated to cost between US$4,000 million and $6,000 million . |
| 6 | The flies crawled upon it and here and there the sharp points of gravel pressed up through the flesh . |
| 7 | An orange ball of flame ripped up into the sky , bathing the deck in light like a miniature sun . |
| 8 | In the river-bed , islands of rock stuck up above the imaginary water level . |
| 9 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 10 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 11 | The food , and the mud on our wellingtons , and sometimes the faint tang of cordite coming up from the cellar all give me a good , tight , thrilling feel when I think about them . |
| 12 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 13 | This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction . |
| 14 | The sports were in fact more of a backcloth than the central event ; the real purpose of the day was for the parents to prowl around the school inspecting the various displays of work set up in the classrooms , and compare the achievement of their offspring with that of others . |
| 15 | Huge backlogs of work built up in the securities dealers ' back offices as deals could not be completed within the exchange 's usual accounts periods . |
| 16 | A shout of laughter goes up from the room . |
| 17 | Howls of laughter went up from the other boys . |
| 18 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 19 | RENFE , according to one estimate , had seen some forty study commissions by the early 1980s ( Nueva Empresa , no. 193 , 15 October 1983 ) , and a major commission of inquiry set up by the government reported in 1984 ( CEFE 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Conscience is a function of the ego ideal , and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal . |
| 21 | You 'll need plenty of courage to face up to the fact that trouble is about to strike and then to deter whoever is behind it . |
| 22 | The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 23 | I think er , and Pam says there 's a sort of post sticking up in the ceiling or something ? |
| 24 | He could see the Tientsin clearly through the transparent walls of the car , its underbelly glowing , great wreaths of mist swirling up into the cold air overhead . |
| 25 | piece of metal put up over the entrance to the compost plant please . |
| 26 | Shape of gentleman getting up in the afternoon |
| 27 | Loads of water get up through the gates . |
| 28 | Golden eye have heads which look like blobs of dough scooped up from the bench and plonked on . ’ |
| 29 | The occasional burst of singing wafts up through the yellow leaves , mixed with the mouldy astringent smell of rotting apples . |
| 30 | Next day he would find the little piece of paper screwed up in the waste-paper basket and the matter ignored . |