Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 2 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 3 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 4 | With ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ he created another identity for himself ( ‘ Camille ’ ) by subjecting his vocal to studio wizardry that tweaked it up to an androgynous 55 rpm . |
| 5 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 6 | Cos got it up on the side and he had n't showed her and he was just pressing oh what 's that |
| 7 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
| 8 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 9 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 10 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 11 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 12 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 13 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 14 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 15 | Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric . |
| 16 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 17 | She went straight to her jug of water and lifted it up by the handle and peered inside . |
| 18 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |
| 19 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |
| 20 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 21 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 22 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 23 | It is believed that one of them moved the regulator and opened it up with the result that the train was soon out of control . |
| 24 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 25 | Smoothly , he worked the action of the Winchester , and swung it up towards the centre of the windscreen . |
| 26 | David designed the first poster for our first Sunday evening and stuck it up outside the pub . |
| 27 | And the wind took him up pony and all , and plumped him up against the hedge . ’ |
| 28 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 29 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 30 | Gallagher drove his right fist into his stomach and followed it up with a left to the mouth . |