Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mihal beat away the burning logs with his club while Martin rushed in and picked up the old man . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , well , ’ she said , bending down and picking up the little frog , ‘ what have we here then ? ’ |
| 3 | He went down and picked up the dangling receiver . |
| 4 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 5 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 6 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 7 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 8 | She tore the tissue paper off and held up a little polythene envelope , with two silver fist-in-a-bag ear-rings inside . |
| 9 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |
| 10 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 11 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 12 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 13 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 14 | The swimming pool , garden terraces and poolside bar are the daytime focus of attention for those who want to lie back and soak up the Mediterranean sun , and the restaurant and caféteria serve a good variety of snacks throughout the day . |
| 15 | You could then lean back and pick up the front foot , thrusting it straight into the opponent 's solar plexus . |
| 16 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 17 | Like most twiners , dodder exhibits either equal growth all around its cylindrical axis , which yields a relatively straight vine , or grows unequally , which allows it to coil around and climb up a linear object such as a host plant . |
| 18 | We 're racing round and cobbling up a makeshift plan . |