Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 2 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 3 | The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers . |
| 4 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 5 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 8 | The sixty-four drawings and nineteen bozzetti and models lead up to the sculptures themselves forty-seven in all in both first and second versions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations to live up to the Christian ideals they realised the strength they would obtain from mutual help and formed themselves into Teams . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | … peace will be permanently preserved only if our artisans and industrialists keep up with the artisans and industrialists of other countries a constant and deliberate communication through their political parties and other organisations … . |
| 13 | A smell of bacon and eggs wafted up from the kitchen . |
| 14 | Moving , funny , silly and things go up in the air and come down . |
| 15 | Victorine and Rose had gone , leaving tottering piles of dirty plates , cutlery soaking in jugs , saucepans and pots lined up at the side of the sink . |
| 16 | There are a number of specialised research organisations and centres set up within the Faculty or in conjunction with other organisations , in which advanced research can be conducted with access to very specialised facilities . |
| 17 | These should be built into a code of practice to meet standards and objectives drawn up by the Director General of Fair Trading , and this code should be made binding on members by the relevant trade associations . |
| 18 | All the leaves will drop away , and should be cleared up , rather than left to rot , or they will encourage pests and diseases to build up in the greenhouse . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Not a word as he put his foot back in the stirrup iron ( only stable boys and jockeys jump up from the ground ) a hand across the saddle-tree , and he was up , quick and certain as a fly landing . |
| 21 | A draft agreement covering the ownership of works of art and the division of cultural property was among the scores of treaties and agreements drawn up between the Czech and Slovak Republics prior to the 1 January dissolution of the seventy-four-year-old state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 22 | Runners and spinnaker sheets and guys double up on the same winches by using sheet jammers and , while this might be fine for a highly tuned crew , a less well-trained outfit might find it demanding . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He also does painted constructions , some of which have been known to hang from the ceiling and others to rise up from the floor like tents . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lockers were immaculately arranged , rooms scrubbed , windows polished and shoes and boots lined up under the beds . |
| 28 | At the far end was a small hall with tables and chairs piled up along the walls . |
| 29 | There is an immaculately manicured lawn , a little pond surrounded by rushes , a high wall with young trees and creepers climbing up toward the wire netting at the top , beds of flowers , and , by some of the front doors , holes have been gouged out of the paving and clematis and creepers planted . |
| 30 | The late diamond dealer 's car was then flogged to a helpful fence in Durban and the proceeds from the stolen car and diamonds divided up among the team . |