Example sentences of "[verb] up and [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
| 2 | In July 1940 Maclaren-Ross was called up and joined the Essex Regiment , later transferring to the Suffolks . |
| 3 | At 11.38 p.m. on the night of 10 July 1985 , agents of the French General Directorate for External Security , DGSE , the equivalent of Britain 's MI6 and America 's CIA , blew up and sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in New Zealand with two limpet mines , killing a member of the crew , a Portuguese photographer called Fernando Pereira . |
| 4 | He and Hunt became Britain 's most famous racing partnership as the 42-year-old Peer spent a large chunk of his personal fortune setting up and maintaining the Hesketh team , whose Grand Prix cars sported a red , white and blue livery . |
| 5 | He says the firm have not yet fully recovered from the high cost of setting up and securing the Stockton site . |