Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He parked himself in the seat opposite and picked up the menu . |
| 2 | Bailiffs moved in and boarded up the house in Ely , Cardiff , as Pat and her children , Maria , 16 , and three-year-old Matthew watched . |
| 3 | ‘ My grandfather moved to Billingford and he settled in and opened up the blacksmith shop … |
| 4 | Mihal beat away the burning logs with his club while Martin rushed in and picked up the old man . |
| 5 | See that would have to be all darkened down that See that light bit of the wood , that 's got to be all darkened down and brought up The colours is all sort of you see , matching and that . |
| 6 | They leaped down and charged up the shore , yelling triumphantly . |
| 7 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 8 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 9 | She turned the music down and picked up the receiver . |
| 10 | One of the apes that lived among the rooftops of the city scampered down and picked up the peel , then raced back up to his vantage point beside the eaves . |
| 11 | He went down and picked up the dangling receiver . |
| 12 | She got up , made herself another coffee , sat down and picked up the note again . |
| 13 | Lowell bent down and picked up the fragment of urn , wiping it with the palm of his hand . |
| 14 | One of the humans reached down gingerly and picked up the box , lifting it up in the air as though Masklin was something very rare and delicate . |
| 15 | De Raimes shrugged carelessly and picked up the lid of a warming dish , inspecting the food beneath it . |
| 16 | Corbett turned away and picked up the goblet , tasting the full red flavour of Bordeaux . |
| 17 | He turned his head away and picked up the newly arrived cognac . |
| 18 | Between because before they got he went away and measured up the body and he also had sometime then you see he would have to go and put the body in the coffin . |
| 19 | She went downstairs and brought up the only sweets she had in the house ; a box of liqueur chocolates . |
| 20 | He stumped savagely downstairs and picked up the receiver . |
| 21 | Sam came over and picked up the bat . |
| 22 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 23 | He walked over and picked up the pewter goblet , sniffing at it carefully . |
| 24 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The corset buyer got to her feet grimly and picked up the glass of drinking water in front of her . |
| 29 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 30 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |