Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle .
2 You might compare , for instance , a real letter from 1740 with one of the letters in Richardson 's novel Pamela ( published 1740 , and made up of a sequence of imitation letters ) .
3 He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things .
4 I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek .
5 The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come .
6 We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines .
7 Simon 's daughter , Pippa , a beauty of six who had one blue and one green eye , swarmed watchfully into the room on her stomach with Thomas 's encouragement and bounced up with a war whoop behind the chairs of two sleeping visitors .
8 In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad .
9 There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution .
10 Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away .
11 Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time .
12 ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint .
13 The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port .
14 As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute .
15 There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men :
16 We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects .
17 I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government .
18 She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell .
19 I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little .
20 A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation .
21 The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel .
22 Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet .
23 [ The recommendations were not well received , and came up against a shortage of appropriately qualified teachers and the determination on the part of the grammar and public schools to defend the Crowther notion of sixth form study in depth . ]
24 Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question .
25 I turned right and walked up to a crossroads where two shops and a bar were open ; I could n't go in because I had no money , so I continued up the road .
26 He started with a series of gulping sobs , went through to a noise like a drain emptying out and finished up with a sort of throaty sob .
27 Selkirk — also on six points but having played one game more than both GH-K and Stirling County — snatched two points at Riverside Park a fortnight ago and followed up with a Border League success against Kelso last Friday in which they scored four glorious tries and were further heartened by the return from serious injury of Rodney Pow and Graham Marshall .
28 With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture .
29 Other nomes came running across the quarry floor , with Nisodemus in the lead , and piled up in a crowd around the gate .
30 Willie crawled under the bed and curled up into a ball .
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