Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clouds were parting and the moon showed dimly at first when the 12-pounder gun 's crew of cooks and stewards closed up aboard the destroyer . |
| 2 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 3 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 4 | A smell of bacon and eggs wafted up from the kitchen . |
| 5 | The strength of the economy has been founded on small family businesses and farms built up over the years by hard work and self-denial . |
| 6 | In response to the massive changes that were taking place throughout Germany a whole series of patriotic clubs and societies grew up in the 1890s . |
| 7 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 8 | In plots and themes they form a bridge from The Lost Prince to the more obviously juvenile world of adventure which Arthur Ransome and others opened up in the 1930s . |
| 9 | At the far end was a small hall with tables and chairs piled up along the walls . |
| 10 | Meanwhile a succession of battered Ladas and trucks sped up to the plane , delivering fleeing women and their bundles , and more soldiers . |