Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 2 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 3 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 4 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 5 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 6 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 7 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
| 8 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 9 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 10 | PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format : |
| 11 | We now retrace our steps to Ponta do Sol and back up onto the road and continue along to Canhas . |
| 12 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 13 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 14 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 15 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 16 | and read up to the summer |
| 17 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 18 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 19 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 20 | If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries . |
| 21 | Pour over the dry cider and water and bring up to the boil . |
| 22 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 23 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 24 | You might compare , for instance , a real letter from 1740 with one of the letters in Richardson 's novel Pamela ( published 1740 , and made up of a sequence of imitation letters ) . |
| 25 | " For which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed , and given up into the hands of wicked men , and to suffer death upon the cross . |
| 26 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 27 | Another day dawned and the mists from the river swirled and eddied round the banks and crept up to the house the Hanging Judge had built . |
| 28 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 29 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 30 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |