Example sentences of "[vb past] up a couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 2 | Specialized in throwing bricks through Jewish shop-windows , heckling leftist speakers , beat up a couple of Liberal Members of Parliament . |
| 3 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 4 | I woke up a couple of hours later . |
| 5 | Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times . |
| 6 | I turned up a couple of minutes early , found the door into the suite ajar and the sitting-room in darkness . |
| 7 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 8 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 9 | He also added his own adaptation of early Beefheart into his strange songs , recorded them and pressed up a couple of hundred records for friends , family and whoever . |
| 10 | She was half of the dreadlock duo , Haysi Fantayzee , which notched up a couple of Top Twenty hits in the early Eighties : ‘ John Wayne is Big Leggy ’ and ‘ Shinny Shinny ’ . |
| 11 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 12 | We all donned gloves and picked up a couple of Harris 's hawks . |
| 13 | They provided a bus , you had a bus ride and you picked up a couple of guides er , who during the night would take you over the er take you over the er Pyrenees , er over the mountains er , the Pyrenees , you see becau er you 're in need of a guide because the er the frontier posts etcetera etcetera were shut , were closed . |
| 14 | Josie laid down her comb , and picked up a couple of big plastic clips from a box on the makeup table . |
| 15 | A few minutes after Amiss had gone Sunil cleared up the fragments of cheese and biscuits , deposited them neatly in the waste-paper basket , picked up a couple of books and some blank paper and descended to the next storey . |