Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] a [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 | PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 8 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 9 | The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come . |
| 10 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 11 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
| 12 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 13 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 14 | Trist and his colleagues were invited to study the problem and to come up with a solution . |
| 15 | Simon 's daughter , Pippa , a beauty of six who had one blue and one green eye , swarmed watchfully into the room on her stomach with Thomas 's encouragement and bounced up with a war whoop behind the chairs of two sleeping visitors . |
| 16 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 17 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 18 | There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution . |
| 19 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 20 | Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time . |
| 21 | ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint . |
| 22 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 23 | As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute . |
| 24 | There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men : |
| 25 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 26 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 27 | She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell . |
| 28 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 29 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 30 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |