Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You would have picked up the parcel and you would have delivered it yourself . |
| 4 | Then , still smiling , Isambard forced the boy 's wrists together , enclosed and held them mercilessly in one lean , muscular hand , and with the other picked up the dagger and tossed it after his own sword . |
| 5 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |
| 6 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 7 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 8 | He finished this one quicker than the other two and when that was done he immediately picked up the knife and cut the next slice . |
| 9 | She 's cut taxes , she 's made concessions and somehow the British people simply have n't picked up the ball and run with it . |
| 10 | Could n't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page . |
| 11 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 12 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 13 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 14 | Eyeing the tiny seed-pearl head-dress with the fly-away veil , Ellie determinedly picked up the scissors and cut all the net off . |
| 15 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |
| 16 | The men had picked up the sacks and shaken them out . |
| 17 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 18 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 19 | Then , having sewn up the body and filled the outlets with camphor , it was well washed , thoroughly dried and rubbed with fragrant oils — in the case of Maria Van Butchell this last act was done by her husband on 12 February 1775 . |
| 20 | Any slip is then immediately transmitted up the rope and braked by those above . |
| 21 | The Party had to be cleansed of those who had stirred up the students and caused trouble . |
| 22 | Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ? |
| 23 | ‘ My surveyors have drawn up the plans and it 's going to be virtually mid-centre of the site . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The new tariffs have opened up the market and I 'm selling to all sorts of people now . |
| 25 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 26 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 27 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 28 | Investigations in New Zealand have pointed up the complexity and variability of white orientations towards the entitlements of Maoris within the policy ( Wetherell and Potter , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Although their public language is guarded , the Americans have pointed up the Belgian and Irish beef industries as examples of general hormone abuse . |
| 30 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |