Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the implications of : Do we really want to know who put up the poster ? |
| 2 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 3 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
| 4 | When I arrive on Saturday morning , the people are all there , waiting to help me set up the table , making up kits , giving out leaflets . ’ |
| 5 | Please could you give me some information to help me set up the tank for coldwater fish , such as filtration , lighting , decor and stocking ? , . |
| 6 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 7 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 8 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 9 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 10 | they reckon I climbed up the outs the outside of a fucking multi-storey car park for two flights . |
| 11 | I feel you summed up the points we discussed very fairly and produced two worthwhile and coherent papers . |
| 12 | guess who picked up the account just after that ? |
| 13 | A few minutes after restarting he picked up the autobahn to Salzburg . |
| 14 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 15 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 16 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 17 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 18 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 19 | When I told him I could not come he turned up the collar of his coat and walked away , looking at the pavement beside the unlit shop windows , hands deep in his pockets , and passed into the night going towards the Bridge of Three Eyes . |
| 20 | When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea . |
| 21 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
| 22 | Jenny , of Willenhall , West Midlands , said she dreamed up the dish after she visited her boyfriend in hospital and found a strange girl at his bedside . |
| 23 | Radio ham Chris Thorndyke , 45 , from Bury St Edmonds , Suffolk , said she picked up the report . |
| 24 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |
| 25 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 26 | She hoped he picked up the phone quickly . |
| 27 | The London driver said he picked up the brothers at Grosvenor House Hotel after the Players ' Union awards dinner last Sunday . |
| 28 | See he smashed up the house on Christmas day . |