Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They left the Tower and rode up Eastcheap , turning into Gracechurch , past the Cornmarket where St Peter on Cornhill stood , and into Cheapside . |
| 2 | ‘ The moment he finished with Etty , the big beast ran over and dug up Admiral King-Fisher 's nest . |
| 3 | Glenda Worth and Dee Malpas formed a partnership last year after they had completed their City & Guilds Machine Knitting course , and opened up GlenDee , their designer knitwear shop in Hopkins Passage , Welshpool , Powys . |
| 4 | She got out of the car and walked up Doris 's path , her back ramrod straight . |
| 5 | They got out of the car and walked up Sybil 's short drive . |
| 6 | And it worried me to that extent that I almost went without your okay and rang up Terry and said , please fix those blinds , because we have got blinds which cost almost two hundred pounds or something and or a hundred and nineteen pounds , and it seems they ca n't fix them . |
| 7 | One minute a well-behaved group of us — writers , intellectuals and so forth — were contentedly watching Zelda Plum dancing with the chinchilla on her head while Ken the Australian Horse Player offered odds ( 'Six to four the rat , ’ he used to say , I do not know why , and on this particular evening the rat escaped and tripped up Robin Fox , London 's most distinguished theatrical agent , who fell on top of Wales 's friend , the actress Susan George ) and the next a squad of hooligans were pushing people around and conjuring a piece of pot from Mrs Mouse 's sewing basket . |
| 8 | Then came a review which made a bonfire of all the others and lit up Burton 's name in flames in the English theatre of the day . |
| 9 | She was a bit shaky but she got the children 's breakfast and cleared up Bob 's . |
| 10 | Rory unscrewed the top from the bottle of Bells carefully and topped up Fergus 's little silver cup . |
| 11 | We started from the Dungeon Ghyll hotel and crawled up Mill Gill in the heat of the midday sun . |
| 12 | He would have been so happy that his daughter — his only child — ’ the pause-calculating arrived once more and pushed up Hope 's resistance another notch ‘ — had accepted and had been so proud to accept the proposal of a man as distinguished as you , sir . ’ |
| 13 | He fired out two Essex batsmen for 38 in his 10 overs , and snapped up England captain Graham Gooch at mid-wicket off Peter Martin . |
| 14 | He fired out two Essex batsmen for 38 in his 10 overs , and snapped up England captain Graham Gooch at mid-wicket off Peter Martin . |
| 15 | We started off VFR and ended up IFR , but on this occasion had to climb up to 10,000 feet , when the lack of turbo-charging became very apparent as the climb rate dropped considerably . |
| 16 | Two figures bent and picked up Madra , and half carried , half dragged her away whilst the rest fought a running battle with the maddened grypesh . |
| 17 | He moved across to the display cabinet and picked up Dick Turpin . |
| 18 | He stooped and picked up Morkar 's blade . |
| 19 | I listened to her and the sisters and then I went and picked up Orlando from school . |
| 20 | She handed Emmie the empty cup and picked up Mo tenderly . |
| 21 | With his usual presence of mind he nipped back and picked up Sheldukher 's hard copy map of the planet . |
| 22 | Stephen clapped his hands and picked up Elaine 's grip , whilst a porter took the trolley loaded with three large suitcases and two carrier bags packed full of magazines , newspapers and duty-free goods . |
| 23 | Weston 's 1920 From Ritual to Romance gave him the tarot pack and backed up Frazer 's emphasis on links between sexuality and religion . |
| 24 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |
| 25 | But in the 89th minute , Chris Malkin latched onto a poor clearance by Miklosko and set up Aldridge for his hat-trick . |
| 26 | The big centre-forward effortlessly strolled past David Burrows , moved into the penalty area and set up Bradley Allen — but his snatched shot went over . |
| 27 | Ricco Cardoni robbed Peter Shirtliff and set up Joao Cruz for a simple finish that had Spora 's fans — all 26 of them — dancing with delight . |
| 28 | Nine minutes later the score was 3–0 as John Brown broke into the penalty box and set up Ian Ferguson to fire home . |
| 29 | The DPR directors had worked at LHW and set up DPR along the same principles . |
| 30 | But after the interval the striker pulled up with a hamstring strain , signalled to the bench to come off — and then gave the ball away and set up Stuttgart 's vital opening goal . |