Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 2 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 3 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 4 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 5 | She therefore deduced that crude anthropomorphism is something which children are taught , not necessarily intentionally , in fact probably not intentionally at all , but it is something which they pick up from the comments which they hear and the deductions which they make . |
| 6 | The males are larger than the females and have modified tail feathers ( left ) and enlarged white oesophageal sacs which they puff up during the ‘ strut ’ display ( right ) . |
| 7 | Nearby , little boys were playing with brightly coloured diamond-shaped kites which they flew up into the warm evening breeze . |
| 8 | He dwelt on the " great historic victory " of 1989 , which he summed up as the " three great victories " : suppression of the counter-revolutionary riot in June , rectification of economic order , and " a new favourable turn on the ideological and political front " . |
| 9 | Super Mario exists on a sole diet of mushrooms , which he gobbles up during the game , but Mario 's favourite food is pasta . |
| 10 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 11 | This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls . |
| 12 | I think I 'll have a beer tonight Knock , give the jake a rest , ’ said Yanto ‘ Suit yourself , ’ Knocker replied , and drew off a pint of bitter , which he held up to the light . |
| 13 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 14 | From the smoothness of the velocity field within the filaments and the way in which it matches up with the velocities of neighbouring clouds , one infers that the arms are probably gas streams tidally stretched out as they fall towards the bottom of the galactic potential . |
| 15 | Otherwise it is still possible to evaluate the British system of social security in terms of the extent to which it matches up to the model outlined by Beveridge in 1942 . |
| 16 | The conference adopted a resolution which stated that " for the Slovene LC the 14th extraordinary congress of the LCY has ended , and the LCY , in the form which it had up to the congress , has ceased to exist " . |
| 17 | In addition , the strategic-line concept presupposed the availability of the Syrian line with which it linked up at the K3 pump station . |
| 18 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 19 | It 's something I picked up in the Trow . ’ |
| 20 | Her other recreation is playing the violin , something she took up at the age of 11 when she went on to become a member of the Preston Youth Orchestra . |
| 21 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 22 | Tim Kaihatsu wrote quite a lot — in fact , he was the one who came up with the most material . |
| 23 | The other — that 's the one who finished up in the river — I 'm not sure about . ’ |
| 24 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 25 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 26 | He himself comes up with the plan of delegation , and he empowers the seventy elders for their tasks once they are chosen . |
| 27 | The railway will be operating as normal and anyone who turns up on the day can join in the fun . |
| 28 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 29 | Is that what you did up at the top of the |
| 30 | We 'll compare it with what we took up at the site . ’ |