Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 2 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 3 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 4 | No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it . |
| 5 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 6 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 7 | Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust . |
| 8 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 9 | It 's different if you 're paid to come here to give a talk and you put up a poor show but if you 've volunteered then er I think er you know you you really ought to have a different approach to . |
| 10 | And who put up the fat poster ? ’ |
| 11 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |
| 12 | Then it was Sue 's turn , and she opened up a shimmering square of silk scarf , which had been flattened to the size of an envelope and now expanded and billowed across the table like the sail of a brilliant ship . |
| 13 | When we die the work stops , the temperature differential starts to disappear , and we end up the same temperature as our surroundings . |
| 14 | Paul was an apprentice electrician at Watneys brewery in Mortlake so he brought some barrels of beer along and we set up a proper bar . |
| 15 | It was a leisurely day and we padded up the rough , warm rock of a plinth of slabs until an awkward overlap sharpened our claws for the crux pitch above . |
| 16 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 17 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 18 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 19 | And they build up the old . |
| 20 | If he was right , and he sent up a silent prayer that he was , it could be he had stumbled on Angel One 's secret escape route . |
| 21 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 22 | It was a sash window , and he threw up the lower half . |
| 23 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 24 | Ben Hanbury is flying as well and he picked up the big race there yesterday with White Crown . |
| 25 | Again he mirrored her meanings back , and he held up the distorted black lumps that were her errors of syntax . |
| 26 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 27 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 28 | And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out . |
| 29 | He took his Tutors examinations in both disciplines and he set up the Euro School of Funeral Studies which flourished and gained a name for excellence . |
| 30 | the only slight exception is ‘ Marina ’ , which deals with a girl coming to terms with her father 's redundancy , and his setting up a new business . |