Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 2 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 3 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 4 | Bring to the boil , chopping through the mixture with a spoon to break up the tomatoes and pears . |
| 5 | So again in London we spent nearly a week setting up the microphones and rehearsing . |
| 6 | Use this side as a guide to mark up the measurements on the opposite side , before cutting , and then repeat the process for the other two sides . |
| 7 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 8 | ‘ This equipment is like a lighthouse sweeping up the hydrocarbons from all around it , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 10 | Coffee was taken amid a rush to wash up the dishes , and at last , at two o'clock , they were free . |
| 11 | Take a camel ride up the slopes or a coach tour around the summit . |
| 12 | Well , we have a duty to draw up the lists , and manage the ballot , and by God we will carry it out and support Sir John , or else there will be madness and misrule here for evermore . |
| 13 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 14 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |