Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm giving you a pen now copy them out and do n't spill it , Deana sit down move up a bit . |
| 2 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 3 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 4 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 5 | She kicked aside some of the mess , bent down to pick up a crisp packet , dropped it again and leaned against a wall , overwhelmed . |
| 6 | I turned the boat into the first drift and bent down to pick up the rods . |
| 7 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 8 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 9 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 10 | Human Touch ( Columbia ) is the worst : an hour of express-way roar with only the odd shift down to break up the nose-to-bumper raunch . |
| 11 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 12 | These days many people know that they should bend their knees when they bend down to pick up an object , but this is only half the story . |
| 13 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 14 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 15 | Be prepared for off the subject remarks — put in to perk up the interview , or comments like ‘ so you all prance about in leotards , then ? ’ |
| 16 | The pectoralis minor muscle contracts and its tendon , the foramen triosseum , passing through pulls up the wing . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Uniforum 's erstwhile executive director Ed Palmer , who 's due to retire next year , has moved over to head up the trade show and conferences , making way for his successor Richard Jarros ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 18 | Hung up to hang up the telephone |
| 19 | ‘ I think I 'd better be the one , ’ Joanna said , then Robert came out to pick up the remaining chair . |
| 20 | And every second month they the occasional keeper the relieving keeper came out local man he came out to make up the two men then went ashore to cover the cover the the reliefs like that . |
| 21 | Poor old Beatrice began by wanting to show how self-denying and supportive Ellen Ash was and she messed around looking up every recipe for gooseberry jam and every jaunt to Broadstairs for twenty-five years , can you believe it , and woke up to find that no one wanted self-denial and dedication any more , they wanted proof that Ellen was raging with rebellion and pain and untapped talent . |
| 22 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 23 | I 'm not just going along to make up the numbers , ’ says Adams-Robinson . |
| 24 | She shouted things they could not understand before lying face down covering up the words : |
| 25 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 26 | He then reaches out picks up the foot of the bed as he said and lifts it . |
| 27 | Lachlan , racing out to set up an ambush for his nephew , insisted against his shipmaster 's warning on taking a corner just too neat , and stranded his birlinn just off the Rubha Aird Druimnich . |
| 28 | The book describes ways of going about setting up a variety of programmes with different purposes . |
| 29 | He swivelled round to set up the next track . |
| 30 | Well , eat up eat up the broccoli then . |