Example sentences of "and then [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a senior job it should not be regarded as a burden to see 12 people and then draw up a short list of three or four . |
| 2 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 3 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 4 | And we used to do thirty-six holes a day ; caddie for one player in the morning and then pick up a fresh bag for the afternoon . |
| 5 | This means discussing the position , the work involved , the skills required , the type of personality who will fit in , with all the people who will expect to benefit from the new employee and then drawing up a written job description . |
| 6 | Tumbleweed poked about with a stick and then picked up a small bundle wrapped in a piece of black plastic bin-liner . |
| 7 | The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system . |