Example sentences of "and [verb] up [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 2 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 3 | Not even the time he was dunked head first in a tub of dubious liquid , and brought up gasping for breath : ‘ Make him sing God Save the Queen ! ’ they shouted . |
| 4 | But I still retain sympathy for the misguided foreign tourists who read about its properties as a ‘ gateway to the beautiful western Highlands ’ and end up wandering in dismay down streets that make the Bronx look like Disneyland . |
| 5 | He would often turn up at the factory in his best suit , get involved in a maintenance problem with his fitter and end up covered in grease . |
| 6 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 7 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
| 8 | They left to do their own thing and ended up signed to US label Geffen in '86 . |
| 9 | I was away from home a lot and ended up collapsing with exhaustion . |
| 10 | ( No , I was n't born then ) : at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta yesterday , our man on the spot , Chris Rose was geared to send stories from his laptop straight back to our server — until on deadline , he found all phone lines from Atlanta were busy ( shame on you , BellSouth Corp ) and ended up having to low-tech fax it back using a direct facsimile line . |