Example sentences of "and [verb] up the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking advantage of the diversion created by the school of minnows laying their eggs , this predatory fish would enter stage right and gobble up the perch 's eggs while he was desperately trying to evict the minnows . |
| 2 | Cockroaches crawl inside machinery such as tape recorders and computers and gum up the works . |
| 3 | George was second out of the hat and picks up the £100 second prize , while Yvonne is £50 better-off in third place . |
| 4 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 5 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |
| 6 | From there the vans would be collected by the ex-Great Central Railway Fish Dock tankers ( a little outside cylinder 0 — 6 — 0 side tank locomotive of a short-wheel base design for working the tight curves on the docks ) and pushed up the fish jetty for loading with fish for despatch to such places as Leicester and Banbury as part of the express fish train service offered by the railway . |
| 7 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |