Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.

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1 I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again .
2 Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .
3 At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar .
4 Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’
5 Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure .
6 Then I plucked up the courage to start moving around on my own and began walking down a path when the gentleman in grey asked people to stand aside , and I stepped well back .
7 I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew .
8 Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me .
9 Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me .
10 Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce .
11 Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off .
12 Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was .
13 Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head .
14 Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks .
15 Then I climbed up the rope myself .
16 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
17 And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on .
18 Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind .
19 Then she took up a position standing right at the back .
20 Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave .
21 Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face .
22 Then she reached up a hand and stroked his hair gently .
23 She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door .
24 Puzzled at first , she turned every page , then she held up the book by its spine and let the pages flutter ; no sheet of paper fell out .
25 Then she gave up the struggle and dropped on her knees beside Debbie .
26 Then she picked up a pencil and quickly worked out the sum on a piece of paper .
27 Then she picked up a parcel lying next to her , and looked round to see if the driver was coming back .
28 Then she picked up a telephone and talked to Conway .
29 Then she picked up the book of ‘ psychological correspondences ’ again and began with difficulty to read the letters .
30 Then she picked up the wicker bird cage and took it to the sill .
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