Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third reason for isostatic anomalies is that there are dynamic forces present in the sub-lithospheric mantle which are capable of actively dragging down or pushing up the lithosphere . |
| 2 | I know now he was just trying to make a sale and did n't have my size in stock , but since he was wearing a fleecy top and tracksuit trousers I believed him , and bought these huge leather edifices that a young married couple could quite comfortably live in and bring up a family . |
| 3 | Why do a , er , an old lady come in and fill up an ice cream tub , do you mean an old ice cream tub ? |
| 4 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |
| 5 | Strachan embarassed Dicks more than once by nipping in and streaking up the wing . |
| 6 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 7 | But this would be moving in and making up the message in the style of the ‘ missing ’ letters in Poor People , the first story of all . |
| 8 | Bailiffs moved in and boarded up the house in Ely , Cardiff , as Pat and her children , Maria , 16 , and three-year-old Matthew watched . |
| 9 | ‘ My grandfather moved to Billingford and he settled in and opened up the blacksmith shop … |
| 10 | ‘ Sharp followed him in and picked up a 12-inch knife and threatened to kill him and other staff . |
| 11 | I mean any of us really could sit down and draw up a list of er of things where , if we , you know , a list of rules if e war for a very small subscription ornot many groups other and if everybody stuck by them , everything would be wonderful |
| 12 | See that would have to be all darkened down that See that light bit of the wood , that 's got to be all darkened down and brought up The colours is all sort of you see , matching and that . |
| 13 | ‘ What have we here ? ’ their father asked , leaning down and picking up the paper bag . |
| 14 | It is n't because I keep on going down and filling up the metro with ten pounds worth of petrol and I 'm not making a a trip back and forth to work every day . |
| 15 | They leaped down and charged up the shore , yelling triumphantly . |
| 16 | She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down . |
| 17 | He sliced round one side , then the other , removed two saucer-shaped pieces of rind from either end , made a transverse cut across the middle and gradually lifted the fruit from the peel , put it down and held up a pair of spectacles to Caterina 's face , two owl eyes of orange peel on a single stem . |
| 18 | The station had gone , too , and they 'd shut the line down and taken up the rails . |
| 19 | He bent down and picked up a carrier that he 'd lain on the floor . |
| 20 | Lowell bent down and picked up the fragment of urn , wiping it with the palm of his hand . |
| 21 | One of the apes that lived among the rooftops of the city scampered down and picked up the peel , then raced back up to his vantage point beside the eaves . |
| 22 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 23 | She turned the music down and picked up the receiver . |
| 24 | She got up , made herself another coffee , sat down and picked up the note again . |
| 25 | She was looking resolutely away , so that Tug could feel what an effort it took her not to bend down and pick up the pieces . |
| 26 | And then er Tom retired and he used to run the bus long after we start the mails and then he retired and er the bus service to come down along and pick up the passengers and that was how it start . |
| 27 | At the same time , he needed to have someone to ‘ come along and set up a boundary . |
| 28 | Ripe time Assuming Mr Lawson has achieved a respectable fall in inflation , the time then really would be ‘ ripe ’ for full membership of the European Monetary System , since this would tend to drive interest rates down while holding up the pound . |
| 29 | It was thrown there on neutral territory between the two ranks and the person who was successful in breaking through and taking up the crown and running right down … round , circling their opponents , and right round and coming back without being caught , that person was successful . |
| 30 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |