Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 2 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 3 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 4 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 5 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not only did they hit the target of 28 for January and February combined , they went on to chalk up a total of 64 ! |
| 11 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 12 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 13 | She reached down to pick up the sweater she had thrown on to her own oilskins . |
| 14 | He went over to pick up a coffee for himself , then came back over and sat down . |
| 15 | I sent him outside to make a start on the exterior painting , and went back to tidy up the mess . |
| 16 | An STC spokesman explained that the £1.7m sale was made by Mr Walsh to escape the rising cost of the loan he took out to pick up an option on 1 million STC shares in February . |
| 17 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |
| 18 | TWO police officers who set out to pick up a prisoner ended up behind bars themselves , a court heard yesterday . |