Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 2 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 3 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 4 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 5 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 6 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 7 | I mean when we 're walking we are actually falling the whole time , but insects are not like that , they do n't stand on three and pick up the other three . |
| 8 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 9 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 10 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 11 | And Kalchu was satisfied and picked up the quivering body to carry it back to the fireside . |