Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd kill me if I blew up the school ? |
| 2 | You kept them and you smashed up the kiosk . |
| 3 | As she stared down at him while he cleared up the mess , she wondered why she felt so outmanoeuvred . |
| 4 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 5 | Lucien watched her as she gathered up the sticks . |
| 6 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 7 | Store manager Richard Northover was dumped there by the two masked raiders who 'd kidnapped him as he locked up the Woolworths store . |
| 8 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
| 9 | He leant on the car and lit a cigarette , puffing at it before he picked up the radio again . |