Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 2 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 3 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 4 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 5 | I took up the tin with the matches in it and lit the candles ; they burned yellowly and I knelt , clenching my fists and thinking . |
| 6 | So I picked up the thing with an empty bottle and put it in the , on the kitchen . |
| 7 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 8 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 9 | You lit up the night with your beauty . ’ |
| 10 | She picked up the box with the frog-magician in it and wedged it into her cape pocket . |
| 11 | Then she picked up the letter with the neatly typed address . |
| 12 | She set up the business with a £4,000 bank loan and shortage of capital persuaded her to expand through franchising . |
| 13 | She set up the business with her husband Jeremy after receiving a £3,000 grant from the Princes Trust and help from Darlington Business Venture . |
| 14 | come in that day and she sat up the table with the boys and had a dish of |
| 15 | As we loaded up the trucks with everything we would need for our month away at Canjuers I felt that we might be about to learn some soldiering . |
| 16 | As they shored up the ceiling with wooden planks , the cleared rubble was passed in buckets along a human chain of miners in the underground roadway . |
| 17 | Thick slabs of bacon sizzled on a pan that sat by the fire , and they mopped up the fat with grainy bread , washing it down with spring water . |
| 18 | Then it was gone , and they laboured up the slope with me , trussed and helpless . |
| 19 | He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes . |
| 20 | I must have looked uncomprehending , for he followed up the pantomime with : |
| 21 | The pensioner was so angry , he tripped up the mugger with his walking stick and grabbed the book back . |
| 22 | He kept up the pressure with his shoulder to give himself the widest gap possible . |
| 23 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 24 | The first taste was fresh and innocuous , then it lit up the throat with a burst of sunshine : it hit the gut with a throb of heat . |