Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take a fair amount of skill and cajoling to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 2 | Do n't be afraid to make good use of filler and stain to patch up the odd failure . |
| 3 | In the end he had relented , and agreed to take up the career she had chosen for him . |
| 4 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 5 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 6 | The new cross was made by a specialist team of cathedral stone masons and has used up the last of the cathedral 's restoration fund . |
| 7 | In his last year as President , Woodward is desperately keen to give Essex their first senior national title and has taken up the role of joint-manager to that end . |
| 8 | I want to go through the process of what we really have to do and consider to build up the story . |
| 9 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 10 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 11 | As soon as she stopped struggling and stood motionless he let her go and bent to pick up the shoes she 'd dropped . |
| 12 | He stood up , stretched and bent to pick up the tray . |
| 13 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 14 | It was a task she devoted herself to while Ted with a most ungentlemanly violence of language put the car into reverse and tried to back up the lane . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 16 | A policeman has been jailed for thirty months after he attacked a motorist and tried to cover up the offence . |
| 17 | Then I was taken back home to my mother 's and tried to build up the relationship again . |
| 18 | Then , riding on , he stiffly dismounted , avoiding the kicking of disabled horses , and stooped to pick up the now trampled and muddied Lion Rampant standard of Scotland . |
| 19 | Linda opened the front door for the milk , and stooped to pick up the bottles . |
| 20 | Snow and slush messing up the pavements . |
| 21 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 22 | What a lack of self-confidence this implies : the present wants both to patronise the past by adjudicating on its political acceptability , and also to be flattered by it , to be patted on the back and told to keep up the good work . |
| 23 | ‘ Bounced out as soon as she heard me call you and came scrabbling up the slope . |
| 24 | I 've not been able to ask Fiona why , since I know she is personally very involved and helped draw up the UK version of ‘ Caring For The Earth ’ with Adrian Phillips . |
| 25 | She sighed , and turned to pick up the clock on the bedside table . |
| 26 | The water hyacinth grows in profusion and tends to choke up the local rivers . |
| 27 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 28 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 29 | I THOUGHT I 'd write this week about wines from unsung corners of the world , and began to round up the usual suspects — Cyprus , Israel , Canada , Belgium . |
| 30 | She knelt quickly and began scooping up the shards . |