Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] and " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 2 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 3 | Justification had been the great theme of the Reformers , especially of Martin Luther , and Ritschl aimed to restore it to the centre of theology by drawing out its consequences and implications in reconciliation , and opening up the force and meaning of Christianity from that centre . |
| 4 | While this may seem like hard work , the benefits to be gained , in terms of opening up the fingerboard and greater harmonic awareness , are invaluable . |
| 5 | Then they re-peopled the village , opening up the doors and window vents of all the cottages , and letting the moorland winds blow through , raising up spectres of dust and shrouds of dislodged spider 's web . |
| 6 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
| 7 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 8 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 9 | On occasions like these , friends of Burton reported , he would counter-attack by releasing his temper , tearing up the room and making it quite clear and genuinely credible that whatever they did , said or tried on he would do just whatever he wanted . |
| 10 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 11 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 12 | Such surveys , whether by sea or land , again required not merely naturalists to accompany them , but museum staff to write up the collections and make the knowledge public . |
| 13 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 14 | Before initiating an incident , you weighed up the pros and cons of the costs in time . |
| 15 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 16 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |
| 17 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 18 | The crowd caught up the shout and Jess felt excitement run through her . |
| 19 | She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies . |
| 20 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 21 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 22 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 23 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 24 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 25 | A local thug phoned up the office and said ‘ tell them if they set foot in Drogheda they wo n't get out alive ’ . |
| 26 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
| 27 | As Blanche snatched up the telephone and listened to the reassuring hum of the dialling tone , she caught sight of herself in the mirror on the wall : the shimmer of sweat on her forehead , eyes wild , face haggard and pale , hair stormy and unkempt , knuckles bruised and sore . |
| 28 | He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat . |
| 29 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 30 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |