Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 2 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 3 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 4 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 5 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 6 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 7 | WITH ONLY 48 hours to come up with the cash , Michael Knighton 's £20m take-over bid for Manchester United is back on course following a High Court ruling that gives him leave to put together a funding package . |
| 8 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 9 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 10 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 11 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |
| 12 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 13 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 14 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 15 | For a while they walked in silence , retracing their steps back up towards the house . |
| 16 | There were also some strange red rods sticking up in the air from a holder . |
| 17 | But the winners make up with the size of their winnings what they lack in numbers . |
| 18 | Depending on the evolution of management during the early 1990s , the confusions building up in the Training Authority 's role may need to be unravelled : either it is strengthened as an effective arm of central policy , or it is abolished so that the market — created by itself — can have freer play . |
| 19 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 20 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 21 | The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe . |
| 22 | And they indicate there that there are excellent opportunities opening up in the United Kingdom bottled water market across the full range of available products commonly consumed and specifically identified friendly product ranges . |
| 23 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 24 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
| 25 | 6.3 The expiry or termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Parties accrued up to the date of such expiry or termination . |
| 26 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 27 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 28 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 29 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 30 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |