Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember the stale leathery smell of the trains , and sleeping curled up in station waiting rooms in the middle of the night . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a massive bang , the ground shook beneath my feet and debris flew up in air . ’ |
| 3 | Certificates for flute and swimming hung up on strings by Dad . |
| 4 | Promotional spending rose from 10 per cent to 11 per cent of total sales and spending on research and development went up from £426 million to £461 million . |
| 5 | Two hundred tons of straw and silage went up in flames . |
| 6 | They rely on an enormous amount of research capital ; that is , the expertise and knowledge built up by research workers or teams and on the body of knowledge generated by others who have undertaken previous studies . |
| 7 | September to October , " the suicide months " , posed a special hazard as the heat and humidity built up in preparation for the rainy season . |
| 8 | The Palace Girls , needless to say , were hungry to start with ; nevertheless they had to exist for seventeen long hours on bananas and chocolate picked up at wayside stations . |
| 9 | The moon and man stepped up to Le-eyo together , and the god became confused , saying ‘ Man , die and remain away ; moon , die and return ’ as he sprinkled them with the reversed charms . |
| 10 | Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke . |
| 11 | We also installed and operated the concrete batching and mixing set up for St Mawgan with a site presence backed up from the Plymouth Depot . |