Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little one 's heard Mummy pull up on the drive and has come down the stairs well before anyone could say anything he got it out . |
| 2 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 3 | She had expected Fernando to turn up at the airport with his arms full of red roses and promises . |
| 4 | Suddenly from among the lichen and lank chickweed drawn up by the gloom of the canopy , comes the first flash of pink . |
| 5 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
| 6 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 7 | This provided a package of financial incentives and exemptions from various laws and regulations to encourage businesses to set up in the zones . |
| 8 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 9 | When Sarah forces Katheryn to face up to the reality of the emotional impact the rape has had on her ( Sarah 's ) life , Katheryn 's allegiances switch . |
| 10 | Picking Gwen Bear up from the bed , and hugging the soft toy to her for comfort , she stood at the window and stared out at the cloudy night sky . |
| 11 | And sales at one of the country 's biggest marts could create traffic chaos , with more than 1,000 steers having to be put through a race at Borderway mart to check ear tags , causing traffic to back up onto the motorway . |
| 12 | Legislation to tackle joyriding drawn up in the wake of last summer 's Tyneside riots comes into effect tomorrow . |
| 13 | Throughout the forest , in glades and clearings , unknown men were burning little piles of leaves so that they could send smoke signals up into the sky . |
| 14 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 15 | Now Gwynedd Health Authority 's health promotion adviser , Melfyn Thomas , is urging people to face up to the challenge of accepting people affected by HIV and Aids . |
| 16 | She had seen Amy drive up to the house on Saturday morning . |
| 17 | They resembled whales lined up outside the headmaster 's office — huge humps sprawled over many kilometres . |
| 18 | The structure appeared to have been built into the air , with scaffolding and support systems running up towards the sky . |
| 19 | • Many environmental consultancies produce publications to help clients keep up with the fast changing world of environmental legislation and regulatory affairs issues . |
| 20 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 21 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 22 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |
| 23 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 24 | A couple are planning to drive their vintage Rolls Royce through the Alps to help children caught up in the war in Croatia . |
| 25 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 26 | Tony Smith 's ( non-flying ) Flying Flea lines up with the C100 below to make a pair of early private pilot machines . |
| 27 | The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea . |
| 28 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 29 | It had not been hard to persuade Brian to come up with the fees for university . |
| 30 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |