Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bit blocked up at the moment but yeah it would |
| 2 | The rooms , erm we 've tried to this has been a bit tied up since the broadcast , we 've tried to have it fairly cluttery so that kids for instance if they 're not used to sheep , can come and come and have a sniff of of of er you know . |
| 3 | ( I even fancied that the prop-wash from our full power had blown the dinghy back a bit to make up for the slight delay in the drop ) . |
| 4 | With the collapse of communism , moreover , a split opened up among the Communists . |
| 5 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 6 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 7 | And beyond it there was the great black bulk of a building rearing up against the night sky with lights flickering yellow and bright in its blankness . |
| 8 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 9 | Doorways opened off this stone passage right and left , one to give access to the porter 's lodge , the other to a stairway leading up to the gatehouse itself , above the pend , from which the drawbridge and portcullis were managed . |
| 10 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 11 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 12 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 13 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
| 14 | Although the wall was originally orange , a brown shadow in the shape of a fan stretched up to the ceiling above the frying pans on the hob . |
| 15 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 16 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 17 | There was a boat drawn up on the shore , dark oak painted white to the water line , the prow a swan 's head . |
| 18 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |
| 19 | ‘ They know that if they lose this one , then a gap opens up at the top . |
| 20 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 21 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 22 | Jim was also unbeaten in Scotland in all other events and as a result ended up as the official No 1 in Scotland . |
| 23 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on June 13 ordered major revisions to a programme drawn up by the government to introduce a market economy . |
| 24 | According to December reports in the Bolivian press , the number of public employees would be reduced over the next five years by over 35 per cent under a programme drawn up by the government with the World Bank . |
| 25 | A dipper flew up from the burn as I emerged from the hut , his white breast flashing as he darted downstream . |
| 26 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 27 | Have , in contrast , eliminates any reference to a tension leading up to the realization of the infinitive and represents the latter as being " already in the bag " . |
| 28 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 29 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 30 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |