Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
| 2 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 3 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 4 | But despite his willingness to collaborate with this tall , blond , handsome editor and publisher with his square , even teeth invariably clamped over fat Turkish cigarettes and whose ice-blue eyes sometimes narrowed as he weighed up the profit or nuisance value of a potential contributor , Vaughan regarded Lehmann critically , detecting mistrust and calculation behind the editor 's apparent kindness and friendliness . |
| 5 | The crowd caught up the shout and Jess felt excitement run through her . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A local thug phoned up the office and said ‘ tell them if they set foot in Drogheda they wo n't get out alive ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat . |
| 12 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 13 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |
| 14 | Her dress fastened up the front and she began to undo the buttons . |
| 15 | February was wet , with gales that howled up the valley and rattled the glass doors leading to the verandah . |
| 16 | She dished up the meal and carefully avoided his eyes . |
| 17 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 18 | Then the midwife lifted up the gown and rolled her roughly on to her side . |
| 19 | Jake lifted up the paperweight and let it rest in his palm , his eyes seeming to examine it as he responded , ‘ The first part of your question is easy to answer . |
| 20 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 21 | Wilkie came up the sand and arranged her return with M. Grimaud . |
| 22 | Victoria came up the room and seated herself on the couch , and without either greeting or preamble , she said , ‘ I 've had indigestion ever since Christmas Day . |
| 23 | He climbed up the wheat-rick and sat on the top , beating down the flames with the branch . |
| 24 | Willie climbed up the ladder but the enormous socks kept making him slip . |
| 25 | Between because before they got he went away and measured up the body and he also had sometime then you see he would have to go and put the body in the coffin . |
| 26 | Maggie opened up the cupboard and took out h ; r piece and the thermos flask she now brought to work with her . |
| 27 | With a tea cloth around her hand she opened up the oven and took out the mince pies and sausage rolls , placing them on the top of the stove to cool as she put the turkey in to cook . |
| 28 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 29 | Possibly caused by people returning to work , I think those are the ones that really opened up the community and dropped people on either side of the fence as opposed to sitting on top of it . |
| 30 | Wars came early to Shanghai , overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to the gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bond . |