Example sentences of "and [vb past] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 2 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 3 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 4 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 5 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 6 | A Shrewsbury architect , Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , had the idea and drew up the original plan , but the design was modified in the process of building the bridge . |
| 7 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 8 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 9 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 10 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 11 | He made a sort of ducking movement to acknowledge his orders and tipped up the nearest chair so that its burden of garments slithered to the flagstones . |
| 12 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 13 | He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians . |
| 14 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 15 | After slipping the clip carefully into her anorak pocket and zipping it closed she descended the steps and scooped up the fallen FN FAL . |
| 16 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 17 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 18 | Without pausing , she hurried on and although I called after her she did n't stop until she had reached the other side and scrambled up the rocky gully to the top . |
| 19 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 20 | Then Julius closed the door again and started up the winding staircase nearby . |
| 21 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 22 | He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape . |
| 23 | Manolo flicked a switch and brought up the other figure . |
| 24 | She went downstairs and brought up the only sweets she had in the house ; a box of liqueur chocolates . |
| 25 | She reached the house and went up the three flights . |
| 26 | They jumped it and went up the opposite slope . |
| 27 | On Sunday 10 May 1719 three warships subjected Castle Eilean Donan to a fierce bombardment which left gaping holes in its walls and the small garrison , in their alien white and yellow uniforms , surrendered , in the most gratifying fashion , to a few boatloads of English sailors , who seized the rebels ' stores and blew up the old fortress . |
| 28 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 29 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 30 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |