Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 2 | She struck up an effective rapport with the new Republican President of the United States , Ronald Reagan . |
| 3 | For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman . |
| 4 | She picked up an emptied canister from the kitchen floor . |
| 5 | As she stood up an empty wine bottle clattered off the bench and rolled down the pavement . |
| 6 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |
| 7 | When they got there , they went up an outside flight of stairs , then Julius took a bunch of keys out of his pocket . |
| 8 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 9 | In addition , he rigged up an infra-red device to detect any movement in the premises and stop any possible bid for freedom , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 10 | He kept up an unrelenting gentle moral pressure on his authors or collaborators , and as a commentator , like Tolkien he selflessly put much of himself into the work of others . |
| 11 | He held up an open hand in salute . |
| 12 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 13 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |
| 14 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 15 | As Charlie paced , he picked up an old pair of frayed jeans or a wide-collared shirt with pink flowers on it , or a Barclay James Harvest album , and tossed it out of the skylight and into the garden below . |
| 16 | He picked up an old ornament : a serpent winding itself around a globe ; an appropriate image . |