Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 2 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 3 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 4 | A little way along , Vern stopped and sat on the very same wall and gazed up the gorge , like I 'd done , at the high flying bridge . |
| 5 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |
| 6 | She put her nose high in the air and stalked up the garden . |
| 7 | What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’ |
| 8 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |
| 9 | She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen . |
| 10 | She riddled the dust and made up the fire and said , ‘ You two make friends time that 's cooked . |
| 11 | They leaped down and charged up the shore , yelling triumphantly . |
| 12 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 13 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 14 | Because they are arranged along the animal , each of the organs receives a slightly different impression of a disturbance , allowing the animal to locate its source and built up a picture of its surroundings . |
| 15 | From March 1743 he began to preach and built up a network of religious societies in Derbyshire , Cheshire , and south-east Lancashire , which soon became part of the Methodist organization led by John Wesley [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | The pilot has already spent twenty five years in the movie business and built up a collection of classic planes . |
| 17 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 18 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 19 | The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ( d. 1190 ) had established the German monarchy and built up the power of the emperor in the north to a hitherto unparalleled degree . |
| 20 | They brought in the horses , hobbled them and built up the fire . |
| 21 | At a time when Japanese cars were a joke , his faith and perseverance founded the Nissan dealerships and built up the business . |
| 22 | She had n't eaten anything , just pushed a piece of ham around her plate to placate Penman and crumpled up a muffin . |
| 23 | She got a couple of drinks down her and loosened up a bit . |
| 24 | ‘ And he whistled up his cohorts after you 'd gone , ’ Sam complained , ‘ and they came with wet-suits and grappling irons and a heavy magnet and dredged up a lot of muck from the dock . |
| 25 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 26 | She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down . |
| 27 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 28 | Seeking solace , he stood and crossed the cramped living area of his two-roomed apartment and snatched up a bottle of Krepkaya , drawing the cork with his teeth . |
| 29 | She turned away abruptly and snatched up a glass of champagne as a waiter passed by with a tray of brimming glasses . |
| 30 | Then as a waiter passed by bearing a laden tray , he reached out swiftly and snatched up a glass of champagne . |