Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [art] [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 | I picked up a pair of combat boots from a pile in the corner , found some laces , and looked at the other people wondering with whom I could swop my uniform . |
| 4 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 5 | One night he nearly caught her , so she climbed up a lamppost. and waited until he had gone . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the remaining 47% he turned to the Norwegian shipping magnate Fred Olsen who coughed up a £12 million stake in the yards . |
| 9 | One of his best customers was Oscar-winning tough-guy actor Joe Pesci , who ran up a £300-plus bill while recreating his bungling burglar role from the original Home Alone . |
| 10 | She held up a pair of earrings , a composite of Benares Brass and delicate enamel . |
| 11 | ‘ We set up a series of trade union and community centres , ’ continued Subhadra . |
| 12 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 13 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 14 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 15 | I 'm sure he must be joking , but he picks up a pair of liquorice-coloured Everlasts and walks to the ring apron . |
| 16 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He held up a pair of shiny black patent shoes . |
| 19 | He held up a pair of boots , assessed their size and tossed them to Zukov . |
| 20 | He picked up the dice , and showed me six sides . |
| 21 | The patient 's requirement for frequent repetition of the Phosphorus led me to make up a 5ml dropper bottle as the stock bottle i.e. the LM granule dissolved in 5mls of water and alcohol instead of 100mls . |