Example sentences of "and [vb past] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street . |
| 2 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 3 | Lucier stood up , with his hand spread across his breastbone as if to protect his heart from the jolt , and weighed up the possibilities of escape . |
| 4 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 5 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 6 | Maybe it 's a pity that people have n't lost the head a bit ; that they have n't gone berserk and showed up the authorities for what they are — I do n't know , unfeeling , inhuman , unconcerned . |
| 7 | ‘ I checked out most of Crevecoeur 's old haunts , ’ he said , consulting his memofile , ‘ and turned up the goods at Alix Micklemas ’ tattoo parlour . ’ |
| 8 | Kibbles filled and raised up the shafts had to be landed and tipped into hoppers . |
| 9 | When he left the house — Jessica had still not come down — he drove in the McCausland car to the heart of Belfast , where he went to an office in a grey , featureless building and followed up the leads . |
| 10 | We have undertaken a randomised trial of elemental diet v prednisolone , to consider these points , in patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent attacks of Crohn 's disease , and followed up the patients for one year after treatment or until relapse . |
| 11 | They 'd gone through its pockets and piled up the contents in a heap . |
| 12 | Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water . |
| 13 | I piled everything i could on a sheet in the middle of the floor and tied up the corners … |
| 14 | Most significantly , Mirror papers introduced modern printing techniques , processed photos locally for immediate use and speeded up the presses . |
| 15 | See that would have to be all darkened down that See that light bit of the wood , that 's got to be all darkened down and brought up The colours is all sort of you see , matching and that . |
| 16 | His hands flickered over the console and brought up the weapons display . |
| 17 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 18 | A ray of sunlight came through the window and lit up the specks of snuff that had wafted from Fagg 's clothing as he sat down . |
| 19 | Yeah , I went out yesterday morning and cleared up the dogs mess |
| 20 | Some councils controlled by the Labour Party defied the pressure from Whitehall , incurred penalties and put up the rates . |
| 21 | Some 4610 feet from the side of Gunnerside Gill lies the engine room and hydraulic engine that pumped the mine clear of water and wound up the tubs of lead ore from the levels another 130 feet below the engine room . |
| 22 | Maggie 's mum taught her how to sew , years ago , they had an old Singer from her aunt who died , and ran up the clothes for all the family . |
| 23 | In a speech at a national conference on industrial production made on Aug. 2 and released on Oct. 8 , Li Peng warned against " blind " over-rapid growth , and summed up the policies to be continued into the first two years of the forthcoming eighth five-year plan as " rectification and the deepening of reform " , with the emphasis on central control . |
| 24 | She rushed back to the living room and picked up the snaps . |
| 25 | Hari pushed past the woman and picked up the boots hugging them to her in a rush of relief . |
| 26 | Oh well Bob had a mini bus that he went with and picked up the passengers . |
| 27 | Jean-Paul hurriedly crossed the room , and picked up the francs from the chest . |
| 28 | You accomplish this and set up the cups again . |
| 29 | And of course , as I 'm the Editor and set up the rules for these features , I can cheat a little bit over costs … |
| 30 | For each option you can allocate a small help comment that you view by pressing the ‘ ? ’ key , and set up the commands to load a program . |