Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gods were displeased again ! he thought facetiously and held up a hand , as if he read her thought . |
| 2 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 3 | Then as a waiter passed by bearing a laden tray , he reached out swiftly and snatched up a glass of champagne . |
| 4 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |
| 5 | He looked away and lifted up a curtain . |
| 6 | Another lady would come outside and look up a tree and say , sadly , ‘ All them squirrels goin' to waste . ’ |
| 7 | If you were near the front , it was nice to be able to have a roll-up and drink your tea slowly and wake up a bit . |
| 8 | You could die or go bankrupt and the house would stay basically unchanged , still mouldering slowly and running up a ransom of a heating bill … unless you were so fabulously rich that you could afford not to give a shit , in which case all arguments foundered . |
| 9 | His latest book , A Hidden Journey , is an autobiographical account of how left his jaded , literary past behind and ended up a follower of Mother Meera , an Indian woman who , improbably , lives in a village near Frankfurt . |
| 10 | She leant forward now and picked up a log of wood and threw it into the centre of the glowing ashes . |
| 11 | Five minutes later a passenger aircraft appeared overhead and took up a hold at 7,000 feet . |
| 12 | It really is possible to get plenty of riding without your own horse and without pots of money — particularly if you ride well and build up a reputation as a reliable and competent person . |
| 13 | Harry went across and picked up a Coke . |
| 14 | She turned away abruptly and snatched up a glass of champagne as a waiter passed by with a tray of brimming glasses . |
| 15 | The monkeys jumped south to avoid Fitz , but Macho was there and rushed up a tree to block the route , while Ulysse , anticipating Macho 's move , rushed into a tree east of both Fitz and Macho . |
| 16 | She went upstairs and picked up a hairbrush — Alice 's brush that she had left behind on the chest of drawers . |