Example sentences of "and [verb] up the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reluctant to brave the corridor again in case the conspirators emerged and caught her , she turned sharply and fled up the tower stairs , just one thought uppermost in her mind . |
| 2 | Over at Robinsgrove , finding no water to hose down the ponies , Perdita put them in their boxes and , having given them their hay nets and filled up the water buckets from the water trough , raced off to Dancer 's for a swim . |
| 3 | The box with the question mark — ? — operates only with boxes 3 or 4 highlighted and calls up the technique numbers or cast on numbers as lists . |
| 4 | I did n't really get my jollies hoeing and taking up the irrigation mats , putting them back and taking them up again . |
| 5 | She settled herself beside him at the bench and took up the satin slippers she was decorating for Meg . |
| 6 | An occasional shaft of sunlight penetrated the foliage and lit up the bronze trunks of the pines , touching them with fire . |
| 7 | And setting up the sound waves in the air at the other side . |
| 8 | No , I know what it is , it 's all our knitting machines sending their radio messages to one another and clogging up the air waves . |
| 9 | We had time for a couple of runs through and set up the tape recorders ( I took two in case of trouble ! ) and by 10 a.m. we were all standing in our place s — white skirts dazzling and hearts beating fast — waiting for the signal to start . |