Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tore the tissue paper off and held up a little polythene envelope , with two silver fist-in-a-bag ear-rings inside . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 4 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 're racing round and cobbling up a makeshift plan . |