Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 2 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 3 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 4 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 5 | I turned the boat into the first drift and bent down to pick up the rods . |
| 6 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 7 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 8 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 9 | We moved fast back up the stairs , along the passage and back down into the lobby of the Regal Arms , trying not to run . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 11 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 12 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 13 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 14 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 15 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 16 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 17 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 18 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 19 | Duvall cursed aloud , fired one last shot directly into the door and whatever lay beyond it , heard the resounding roar of anger and rage … and then retreated hastily back up the stairs towards them . |
| 20 | He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ . |
| 21 | Jack walked slowly back up the stairs numb and shivering . |
| 22 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 23 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 24 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 25 | By the mid-1950's the catch was diminishing , then the big Russian and Dutch factory ships moved in and began virtually vacuuming up the fish , taking the young as well as the adults . |
| 26 | ‘ But it is not really so very difficult , ’ said Snodgrass , after he was hoisted into the saddle and discovered how to take up the reins . |
| 27 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 28 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 29 | Chris Horn and his CCG staff of some 110 joined in the celebration last December , when the UK and French tunnel engineers broke through to link up the Channel Tunnel Marine Service Tunnel . |
| 30 | I dashed straight back up the road to my own house , rang Paul and told him I 'd definitely have one , and maybe two . |