Example sentences of "and [verb] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the front row jumped to their feet and fled up the aisle away from the danger . |
| 2 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 3 | The monastic buildings surround the church and spread up the hillside above . |
| 4 | ‘ It 'll just collapse and give up the ghost somewhere in France . |
| 5 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 6 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 7 | Not giving her resolve time to weaken , she slipped off her shoes and hurtled up the alley as fast as she could go . |
| 8 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 9 | I left the cycle near a ruin and followed up the burn beyond . |
| 10 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 11 | And home he would stamp with his bat beneath his arm , vowing that one day he would become Minister of Agriculture and plough up the whole bally field . |
| 12 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 13 | ‘ Good , ’ said Ben , moving back and taking up the oars again . |
| 14 | They stopped near us , then turned and went up the ladder again . |
| 15 | She sighs and picks up the envelope again . |
| 16 | ’ And as he and Kraal continued to talk old Minch quietly dropped down to her shelter and took up the food there , listening to their few memories of the world outside . |
| 17 | As I have to get up early , I 'll break off the letter now , and take up the story later . |
| 18 | Apparently they either found me dad down the cellar or he recovered and come up the cellar like , you know . |
| 19 | This time is taken up by reading each word from the ASCII file , working through it letter by letter , allocating any new nodes required and setting up the pointers correctly . |
| 20 | ‘ Understood , ’ she said , and started to slide gratefully toward the doorway as Charlie moved over into his chair and picked up the phone again . |
| 21 | The animal with an emerald on its leg tugged at Midwinter 's sleeve-lace and picked up the baton again and staggered about with it . |
| 22 | She got up , made herself another coffee , sat down and picked up the note again . |
| 23 | and to make up the weight instead of five he sent six to make the weight up . |
| 24 | You accomplish this and set up the cups again . |
| 25 | However , it soon became clear that Laura could not secretly organize such a major undertaking while based abroad , and , in desperation , brought in Deborah , She , realizing the potential of the project , begged another year and set up the operation openly in the company 's London workroom at Clapham . |
| 26 | She swivelled primly — she was n't one of nature 's barmaids — and held up the change just past my face , which was boiling now , as she saw . |