Example sentences of "and [verb] up the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next time , stay calm and pick up the pace when you can . |
| 2 | The movement of a large number of sellers in the parallel market would drive down the price , and push up the yield until it equalled that in the discount market . |
| 3 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 4 | He could he 's still good enough to stand in erm Sainsburys alongside the till and add up the prices as they go through . |
| 5 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 6 | Each team had its own place at the coal seam and was responsible for hewing coal with a pick or drill , loading it into tubs for transportation out of the mine and propping up the roof as they advanced . |
| 7 | So maybe the Indians understood this and tipped up the raft because they were trying to kill Father Firmin ( me ! ) so that Father Antonio would survive and baptise them . |
| 8 | She stammers a kind of apology and wriggles up the bed so her face touches mine . |
| 9 | He braked and grabbed up the shotgun as he laid the bike over , sliding into the shelter of the woodpile . |
| 10 | He reached across and pulled up the blanket until it covered the boy 's chest . |
| 11 | I had to water the plants and stock up the fridge as I do n't want to be reported to the NSPCC . |
| 12 | ‘ Now — ’ he turned to Sophie ‘ — will you hold it , please , and keep up the tension while I put on the plaster ? |
| 13 | ‘ So you travel over deep water and pull up the plumb-line when the bell rings . |
| 14 | The Romanians managed to duck round the back and take up the lead as the French extracted themselves from their collision with the pontoon . |
| 15 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 16 | So , between friends lost and friends forgotten , he was very much alone this Saturday night , and picked up the phone when it rang with some gratitude . |
| 17 | One of the Germans , wearing a surprising black-and-white checked cloth cap , made an operation out of buying coffee through the window , and held up the train while he got a missing straw . |