Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So maybe the Indians understood this and tipped up the raft because they were trying to kill Father Firmin ( me ! ) so that Father Antonio would survive and baptise them . |
| 2 | You accomplish this and set up the cups again . |
| 3 | But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . |
| 4 | The four set off along Brunel Road , following the tunnel wall until they passed the Labour Exchange then they veered left and picked up the road which ran alongside the river . |
| 5 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 6 | Maybe it 's a pity that people have n't lost the head a bit ; that they have n't gone berserk and showed up the authorities for what they are — I do n't know , unfeeling , inhuman , unconcerned . |
| 7 | Bourne coloured and turned up the report . |
| 8 | Do you know , even when he became an ascetic and gave up the pomp of court , even when he fasted , the Blessed Thomas could not abstain from his cups of claret . ’ |
| 9 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 10 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 11 | She forced her body wide and pressed up the length of him . |
| 12 | To arbitrate this unity , UI has , as expected ( UX No 414 ) , wrestled the authority to pick technologies above the operating system away from Unix System Laboratories Inc and opened up the selection process to the industry at large . |
| 13 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange found the theme , which has the heiress played by Charlotte Walker learning ‘ what life is and what are the actual conditions under which many of her fellow human beings live ’ , plausible and summed up the photoplay as a ‘ strong arraignment of existing working conditions in certain localities ’ . |