Example sentences of "and [vb past] up the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitlock shoved him back onto a tarpaulin in the corner of the warehouse and scooped up the Browning . |
| 2 | Alex went over to the mantelpiece and picked up the Concorde ticket . |
| 3 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 4 | After winning the Berkhamsted he went back to his home club and picked up the Watson Trophy with a 69 . |
| 5 | William Wilberforce and Marmaduke Langdale were patrons of the church and set up the Langdale Charity . |
| 6 | We appointed a superb chief inspector of prisons , Judge Tumim , and set up the Woolf commitee on prison reform , which has produced an excellent report . |
| 7 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |