Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London conference in June 1990 agreed to tighten up the protocol and phase out production and consumption of CFCs by not later than the year 2000 . |
| 2 | This involved costing up the advantages and disadvantages of each of the proposed courses of action and selecting the preferred option on the basis of the balance of each calculation . |
| 3 | But the Retail Butcher of the Year promised to pick up the pieces and re-open as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 5 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 6 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 7 | Ludens hastened to pick up the jacket and helped Marcus into it . |
| 8 | we happened to go up the stair and er , the door was answered |
| 9 | The young woman put the tray down on the table beside the bed and began gathering up the books and papers off the bedspread . |
| 10 | Artemis and Rosie both stood in silent uncertainty for a moment before Rosie began to pick up the marbles and put them back in their small cloth sack . |
| 11 | True to her word , Nelly Tilling called frequently at Albert Piggott 's house , and enjoyed cleaning up the place and cooking her old friend a meal . |
| 12 | IT WAS always this week that the people who ran the residential home began to put up the streamers and tinsel of Christmas . |
| 13 | And proceeded to ascend up the hills and that and still it was only drizzling . |
| 14 | He asked the mother the child 's weight , worked out the dose and Kathleen went to draw up the drug and get the Flamazine ointment . |
| 15 | At the time we took up the , the secretary took took up the matter and I got him to send us er a copy of the reply , and it , it appears that , as you know it 's all voluntary and , and it relies charity for individuals , but I noticed , I only got this from Ron yesterday , paragraph here says , where the community demonstrates it 's active support for such adventure , then there is an increase likelihood of the establish of a service , although it has to be said that there already exists a waiting list of communities eager to re receive P D S A support . |
| 16 | A Squadron certainly did keep up the pressure and achieved the desired result , mining and ambushing merrily . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , some cynics might say , 49 people did take up the offer and the details were sent to the club to effect the paperwork . |
| 18 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 19 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 20 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 21 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 22 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 23 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 24 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |
| 25 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 26 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 27 | The men had picked up the sacks and shaken them out . |
| 28 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |
| 29 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 30 | The Party had to be cleansed of those who had stirred up the students and caused trouble . |