Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 2 | There is an art to the task ; it is possible , otherwise , to put out the fire by smothering it with too much fuel , or even to poke it up too hard so that the last embers blaze up and the fire dies . |
| 3 | Because you will know in advance when you need the cash , you can use a 90-day-notice account or even tie it up for five years for a better return . |
| 4 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 5 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 6 | Twice before she reached the opposite bank Jenny missed her footing and plunged -chest-deep into the river , but each time she was able , to grasp the slippery stepping-stone and slowly haul herself up on to it . |
| 7 | ‘ How what , Jannie ? ’ asked Bob , taking a teaspoonful of sugar from the jar and slowly licking it up . |
| 8 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 9 | Of how a man might contrive to open a cylinder of phetam , and perhaps set us up as a God-King himself , on a more salubrious world … |
| 10 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 11 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 13 | Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room : repeating rumours , distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up . |
| 14 | By choosing the right substance to crystallize on a surface one can often get the new crystals to form almost entirely upon the fine irregularities of the surface and thus show them up . |
| 15 | They were completely unworldly and thus brought us up to be the same . |
| 16 | I 'll see if I 've got a map around or can get a really cheap map and just put it up . |
| 17 | Mind I know there 's some that when you can pick up if you 're , you know you could pick up something like that if you were n't careful and just pick it up from the inside |
| 18 | He is not the type to go to the pub and just pick someone up . |
| 19 | and just hold them up to light you quite welcome to do so . |
| 20 | All you do is , you get a mop and you just swish it over and you get a dry mop and just polish it up . |
| 21 | Well no , knowing our it 's probably the er electricity board 's come along , to read the meter , somebody 's put a screw in it , and they 've got a crowbar and just opened it up . |
| 22 | And of course then when she had done it they used to fold it up they used to just get it then and go like that you know , and just fold it up and then when it was done all done you see , they 'd take it back to this here lady and then of course they used to pay you for it . |
| 23 | We were given a reliable position for this vessel and soon picked her up on our radar when we were able to close and positively identify her . |
| 24 | The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault . |
| 25 | Its queen , Praxis , summons Riddler , a visionary architect , for help in repelling an enemy massed outside the gates , but Riddler , an old boot who would be too tough for Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush , wants to destroy the city in order to save it , pillaging the Temple of Culture for war material and finally blowing it up . |
| 26 | Yeah , and gradually heat it up |
| 27 | When the dancing had reached its climax , the whole crowd flung themselves on to the floor and further worked themselves up into what looked like a communal epileptic fit . |
| 28 | We finally found them and quickly picked them up . |
| 29 | As Tom came out he became conscious of them again and quickly pulled them up . |
| 30 | She was singing aloud as she skipped when suddenly and unexpectedly her rope was fouled by something and nearly tripped her up . |