Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griselda opened her eyes and licked up the tear . |
| 2 | They unfolded the stiff green branches and set up the metal stand . |
| 3 | She served four months and gave up the glue . |
| 4 | Mike Pumfrey , now back in the study with Sergeant Fenniway , put his finger to his lips and picked up the extension phone . |
| 5 | Most of the front row jumped to their feet and fled up the aisle away from the danger . |
| 6 | Slowly he got to his feet and picked up the newspaper . |
| 7 | Over at Robinsgrove , finding no water to hose down the ponies , Perdita put them in their boxes and , having given them their hay nets and filled up the water buckets from the water trough , raced off to Dancer 's for a swim . |
| 8 | Not giving her resolve time to weaken , she slipped off her shoes and hurtled up the alley as fast as she could go . |
| 9 | The Marshal had made a point of checking on that because although the Florentines spent a small fortune on electronic locks , bars , security doors and burglar alarms they quite open pressed the switches and opened up the lot to anybody with the wit to ring the bell and call ‘ Telegramtne ! ’ |
| 10 | Party manners — Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab ; Sun Microsystems Inc then threw a celebratory dinner for the COSE teams on April 16 , the night before the announcement : now it 's IBM Corp 's turn , unless Lou Gerstner decides to sit it out , pleading poverty . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab . |
| 12 | He packed away the picnic things and started up the engine . |
| 13 | Where as he bought these machines and cleared up the rubbish to get at the slate . |
| 14 | Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too . |
| 15 | She put down her two shopping bags and picked up the shoe-polish . |
| 16 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 17 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 18 | On the second sortie he made no mistakes and shot up the route like a man with a mission . |
| 19 | At a time when Japanese cars were a joke , his faith and perseverance founded the Nissan dealerships and built up the business . |
| 20 | Intruding on a newly married couple sounded a textbook mistake when he surveyed it , but plainly both of them were glad he was there ; he could see it in their faces and ran up the platform with joy , not shy at all about the reflection of his hurtling bulk in the glass of a newsagent 's stall . |
| 21 | The driver changed down gears and sped up the ramp , smashing through the boomgate , and disappeared out into the street . |