Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim became team captain in succession to Ian in October 1977 and led us up to Division One in 1978–79 as 2nd Division champions , then to the top of the Football League on 29 September 1979 , scoring as spectacular a goal in our 4–1 trouncing of Ipswich Town as any football follower could ever hope to witness . |
| 2 | The Campbell yanked a Mills bomb from a camouflaged pocket and flung it up at Cornelius . |
| 3 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 4 | With the Apostles in mind , he has produced twelve wooden blocks , akin to children 's bricks , and lined them up on shelves . |
| 5 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 6 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 7 | Rebecque brought the orders himself and handed them up to Sharpe who was already mounted . |
| 8 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 9 | Traditionally , African beer is drunk from a large cup , passed round the groups of drinkers , but in this village they had a different technique : they brewed the stuff in an old oil drum and served it up in buckets . |
| 10 | Ben made the first on-sight of Psycho ( ) and followed it up with on-sights of Genesis ( ) , Rainbow Wall ( ) , Your mother , Monument and Anarchiste ( all ) with Mark sharing the honours on Monument . |
| 11 | ‘ Martinez pulled him out of the Hi-Flight contract and signed him up with Supersight . ’ |
| 12 | She walked down street after street , always turning to the right , and pulled herself up among buses , and near a railway bridge . |
| 13 | How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ? |
| 14 | The machine cut the crop and tied it up in sheaves . |
| 15 | Put her in a hole and stoned her and covered her up with earth before she was dead . |
| 16 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |
| 17 | I made a short story of the business and sent it up to Encounter , but the puritanical buggers in charge sent me a rejection slip ! |
| 18 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 19 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 20 | He extracted their blood and their vital juices and boiled them up with mercury and potassium and other , secret ingredients . |
| 21 | He led an attack on what ought to have been his own castle , and blew it up with dynamite ! |
| 22 | Two days later , when thunderstorms were muttering over the Slieve Mish and the sea crows were circling lazily over the valley , her father and brothers came for her and took her up to Ballymacadoyle Hill . |
| 23 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 24 | Now that the house was quiet I filled a plate with some of the leftover food and took it up to Frankie . |
| 25 | Luckily he had no ammunition for the rifle and gave himself up after Omar , who had caught up with us , put two more shots over his head . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 27 | Graham Vincent met us as arranged at Abergynolwyn and accompanied us up to Nant Gwernol . |
| 28 | and chained it up to Springfield Gardens ' gate . |
| 29 | He stole a chicken from work , and I watched as he stuffed it and sewed it up with needle and thread in his girlfriend 's flat , frowning with ponderous alcoholic severity . |
| 30 | Henry then renounced the Catholic faith — when the Pope refused him a divorce — and set himself up as Head of the Church of England . |