Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 2 | It exploded after he picked up the device which had fallen from underneath a car outside a house on the Antrim Road . |
| 3 | They became widely separated as they struggled up the slope . |
| 4 | Anne could see , though , that he was trembling as he picked up the handles of the handcart and moved away . |
| 5 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |
| 6 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 7 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 8 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 9 | Sophie nodded as she cleaned up the wound , then , after giving an injection of antibiotic , she stood for a moment in thought . |
| 10 | They would take a lazy bottom turn , stall as they climbed up the wave , then disappear behind the curtain for a second or two , reappearing like actors at the end of a play to take a bow . |
| 11 | He did n't move until I picked up the poker . |
| 12 | But despite his willingness to collaborate with this tall , blond , handsome editor and publisher with his square , even teeth invariably clamped over fat Turkish cigarettes and whose ice-blue eyes sometimes narrowed as he weighed up the profit or nuisance value of a potential contributor , Vaughan regarded Lehmann critically , detecting mistrust and calculation behind the editor 's apparent kindness and friendliness . |
| 13 | He grinned when he picked up the phone to check the dialling tone . |
| 14 | A glorious red butterfly with sapphire blue eyes on its wingtips fluttered and curtsied in front of me , moorland sheep scuttled reluctantly off the track as I ploughed towards them and a group of walkers cursed as they struggled up the bank . |
| 15 | I noticed the leather of my shoes darken as it picked up the moisture from the grass . |
| 16 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 17 | she heard when she picked up the phone . |
| 18 | Mum was crying as she picked up the money and slipped it into her purse which she kept down her bosom . |
| 19 | His face did not relax as he picked up the brandy and handed it to her . |
| 20 | ‘ George Vicente Brown goin' be one dead son of a beetch , ’ Miguelito swore as he struggled up the bank . |
| 21 | From under the chair I watched as she scooped up the mess into a cloth , and dropped it in the bin . |
| 22 | But her emotions had burnt themselves out , and all she felt as she picked up the cards and carried them through to the kitchen was a dull emptiness , as if the pain she was n't feeling had left a gap . |
| 23 | Sophie laughed as she picked up the instrument , then , after listening for a minute , she said , ‘ Oh , yes . |
| 24 | Some of their moves were a delight to watch as they swept up the field constantly , and the rate of scoring hardly slackened all afternoon . |
| 25 | Whatever else was wrong with him he was at least honest , Carrie thought as she ran up the town . |
| 26 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 27 | Her hands were shaking when she picked up the receiver and dialled the number of Sabrina 's flat . |
| 28 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 29 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't forget we 're going to Appleby tomorrow , ’ Elinor said as we tidied up the kitchen . |