Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians . |
| 32 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 33 | After slipping the clip carefully into her anorak pocket and zipping it closed she descended the steps and scooped up the fallen FN FAL . |
| 34 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 35 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 36 | Without pausing , she hurried on and although I called after her she did n't stop until she had reached the other side and scrambled up the rocky gully to the top . |
| 37 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 38 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 39 | The old lady , following Sandison into the tiny bedroom , dropped to her knees , crossed herself and started up a high-pitched wailing , interspersed with fragments of speech which Sandison found completely incomprehensible . |
| 40 | Then Julius closed the door again and started up the winding staircase nearby . |
| 41 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 42 | He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape . |
| 43 | Virginia buttered another roll , and sent up a silent vote of thanks for whoever had invented sun-glasses . |
| 44 | The consumer and corporate finance division kept a check on bad debt difficulties , and notched up a small profit increase to £62m . |
| 45 | But FT-SE shook off the blues and notched up a 29.5-point leap to 2687.8 . |
| 46 | And they did n't stop until he heaved and brought up a great deal of liquid into the bowl that Peggy was reluctantly holding . |
| 47 | Manolo flicked a switch and brought up the other figure . |
| 48 | She went downstairs and brought up the only sweets she had in the house ; a box of liqueur chocolates . |
| 49 | She reached the house and went up the three flights . |
| 50 | They jumped it and went up the opposite slope . |
| 51 | On Sunday 10 May 1719 three warships subjected Castle Eilean Donan to a fierce bombardment which left gaping holes in its walls and the small garrison , in their alien white and yellow uniforms , surrendered , in the most gratifying fashion , to a few boatloads of English sailors , who seized the rebels ' stores and blew up the old fortress . |
| 52 | ‘ Not at all , ’ he murmured , and reached up a strong hand to flick it out , but not before Rachel had noticed how long his fingers were , and how black hairs grew over his wrists and down towards those fingers . |
| 53 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 54 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 55 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 56 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |
| 57 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 58 | Luigi appeared out of the woodwork and mopped up the spilt cream . |
| 59 | It was only a dispute over finance with the Olympic authorities which prevented the EEC from enacting a programme in which the athletes of every Member State would have competed in European Community uniforms , mounted the podium to the strains of Beethoven 's Ninth in place of their own anthems , and totted up a European total of medals . |
| 60 | And Souness is hoping for a repeat of last season 's UEFA Cup triumph , when French club Auxerre were frightened by a hostile reception and gave up a two-goal lead . |