Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm tt I think , oh dear , I saw an advert in the paper I think to , to take out a savings plan or something and I just signed up a , a form and back it came . |
| 2 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 3 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 4 | To Howard 's stubborn insistence that the Nez Perce move immediately to the reservation , Toohoolhoolzote answered : ‘ The earth is part of our body , and we never gave up the earth ’ . |
| 5 | I recently referred the subject of access to neo-natal facilities to the Clinical Standards Advisory Group , and we recently set up a confidential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy . |
| 6 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 7 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 8 | Lyell made people aware by the 1830s of the great age of the Earth , and he also divided up the Tertiary period , using a statistical method based upon the proportions of existing species found among the fossils . |
| 9 | So I said , ‘ Let's knock up a quick vocal and let's knock up Keith 's guitar , ’ and he just banged up a solo very quickly and it was great . ’ |
| 10 | She opened her mouth again and he quickly held up a hand . |
| 11 | Excitement indeed ! and it even caught up a sober and spiritually distanced Quaker who could not " find words sufficient to draw it in colours strong enough " but has left a useful description of a phenomenon which seems to have lasted for several weeks , " when the great noise subsided , but the fire still existed " . |
| 12 | This is called ‘ consumer choice ’ and it also opens up the possibility of charging for more services . |