Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have picked all the answers in this section you are the sort of person who can watch somebody do it and then pick it up in a flash — or read the handbook and you 're away . |
| 2 | Other lenders may advance 95 per cent of the purchase price and then top it up with a five per cent loan from an insurance company . |
| 3 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 4 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 5 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 6 | Think of the total quantity of change involved in going from wolf to Chihuahua , and then multiply it up by the number of walking paces between London and Baghdad . |
| 7 | Apply it over the boards with a roller , wait a few seconds , then wipe it up with a clean cloth . |
| 8 | If you are paid a weekly wage , then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on . |
| 9 | " Take a quart of Creme and a pint of rhenish wine and the juice of 4 lemons sweeten it to your taste and put in some leamon peele then whip it up with a small rod and put it with a spoone into syllabub glasses . " |
| 10 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 11 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 12 | Let the samples dry thoroughly , then tack them up on a wall and note the differences . |
| 13 | Shelley put ten long fingers to his chest and then flipped them up at the ceiling . |
| 14 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 15 | This time of night , the reservations are pretty well settled ; all I have to do is pick out a room in one of the quieter areas and then take them up on a passkey . |
| 16 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 17 | their press release , so I might do that in future , send out a release and then follow it up on the phone call . |
| 18 | Holt can and does believe that children should have them as adults do , and then leaves it up to the child to decide whether or not to exercise them . |
| 19 | He knocked my gun from my hand then pushed me up against the wall , pressing his own gun into my stomach . |
| 20 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |