Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 2 | Of how a man might contrive to open a cylinder of phetam , and perhaps set us up as a God-King himself , on a more salubrious world … |
| 3 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 5 | They were completely unworldly and thus brought us up to be the same . |
| 6 | Mind I know there 's some that when you can pick up if you 're , you know you could pick up something like that if you were n't careful and just pick it up from the inside |
| 7 | We were given a reliable position for this vessel and soon picked her up on our radar when we were able to close and positively identify her . |
| 8 | The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault . |
| 9 | This was just a routine visit to an elderly patient to check that she was happy , and not in any pain , and also to stock her up on her medicines . |
| 10 | The male catches an insect and carefully parcels it up in silk . |
| 11 | Such a policy makes sense only if the administration really is prepared to carry out its threats , and even to follow them up with worse . |
| 12 | ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields . |
| 13 | Since the start of the month , the ACT Financial Systems Ltd arm of ACT Group Plc , and IPC Information Systems Ltd , both London-based , have been working together to improve communications in the dealing room : first fruit of this non-exclusive agreement is a link between ACT 's Citydesk database and IPC 's Tradenet MX digital dealerboard ; when a dealer dials a direct line telephone number using his Tradenet dealerboard , the RS 232 output port on the board simultaneously sends a signal to the Citydesk database ; a special program searches the database for information on the client being contacted , and immediately posts it up on the Citydesk screen ; so , the dealer does not have to waste time doing a manual search ; this service is available now , but will be sold mainly as an added extra to existing customers , or via the direct sales teams of both parties ; pricing depends on the size of installation , and the complexity of database search levels required ; future developments include bi-directional communications — the Citymax database could send a message to a dealer if something significant happened on the market . |
| 14 | Attempts were made to contact all those writing for information about the scheme in 1980 and then follow them up in detail . |
| 15 | their press release , so I might do that in future , send out a release and then follow it up on the phone call . |
| 16 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 17 | Put a layer of pebbles in a plant pot and then fill it up with healthy damp soil . |
| 18 | This time of night , the reservations are pretty well settled ; all I have to do is pick out a room in one of the quieter areas and then take them up on a passkey . |
| 19 | Whe and you know , put into the clothes basket and then pick it up on our way home from school . |
| 20 | If you have picked all the answers in this section you are the sort of person who can watch somebody do it and then pick it up in a flash — or read the handbook and you 're away . |
| 21 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 22 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |
| 23 | Holt can and does believe that children should have them as adults do , and then leaves it up to the child to decide whether or not to exercise them . |
| 24 | Cork tiles are made by compressing the bark of the cork tree into a block , and then slicing it up into thin layers . |
| 25 | Shelley put ten long fingers to his chest and then flipped them up at the ceiling . |
| 26 | Other lenders may advance 95 per cent of the purchase price and then top it up with a five per cent loan from an insurance company . |
| 27 | Well , what we wan na do is do one , do week by week and then split it up into day by day . |
| 28 | and then tie it up for about three weeks . |
| 29 | TACKLING your opponent very hard and then lifting him up with your hands under his armpits and pulling his hairs until he is screaming blue murder — and you say to the referee ‘ Well , I 'm only trying to help him ! ’ |
| 30 | Think of the total quantity of change involved in going from wolf to Chihuahua , and then multiply it up by the number of walking paces between London and Baghdad . |