Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 2 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 3 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 4 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 5 | I turned the boat into the first drift and bent down to pick up the rods . |
| 6 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 7 | Human Touch ( Columbia ) is the worst : an hour of express-way roar with only the odd shift down to break up the nose-to-bumper raunch . |
| 8 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 9 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 10 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 11 | Be prepared for off the subject remarks — put in to perk up the interview , or comments like ‘ so you all prance about in leotards , then ? ’ |
| 12 | The pectoralis minor muscle contracts and its tendon , the foramen triosseum , passing through pulls up the wing . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Uniforum 's erstwhile executive director Ed Palmer , who 's due to retire next year , has moved over to head up the trade show and conferences , making way for his successor Richard Jarros ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 14 | Hung up to hang up the telephone |
| 15 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 16 | I 'm not just going along to make up the numbers , ’ says Adams-Robinson . |
| 17 | She shouted things they could not understand before lying face down covering up the words : |
| 18 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 19 | He then reaches out picks up the foot of the bed as he said and lifts it . |
| 20 | Well , eat up eat up the broccoli then . |
| 21 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 22 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 23 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 24 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 25 | Even such apparently social differences as women 's larger attendance at church and enthusiasm for coffee mornings , and men 's greater participation in Rotarian meetings , are roped in to back up the argument ( Hutt 1972 ) . |
| 26 | But at any time she could be called out to back up the site 's regular fire crew . |
| 27 | When you have decided on the main background colour for floor or walls or both , you can set about building up the scheme throughout the room . |
| 28 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 29 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 30 | Chris Horn and his CCG staff of some 110 joined in the celebration last December , when the UK and French tunnel engineers broke through to link up the Channel Tunnel Marine Service Tunnel . |