Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 2 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 3 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 4 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 5 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 6 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 7 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 8 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 9 | He wrote up the names of all trainees on the white board , and at the end of the day , he wrote up the sales scores of each one . |
| 10 | He picked up the dice , and showed me six sides . |