Example sentences of "and [vb -s] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitching : the inner is erected in about four minutes and goes up first . |
| 2 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 3 | The right hand route , Call of Nature , moves out on jugs to reach a crack and finishes up this . |
| 4 | ‘ See you , ’ I say and escape to City Road , where an off-licencee is opening and looks up surprised to see an office yuppie ( his definition ) among the line of winoes so early in the morning-o ! |
| 5 | It removes the need for G-cramps and battens for many tasks , and speeds up repetitive jobs . |
| 6 | This image can be most simply regarded as a porosity map , since the impregnating resin has a relatively low atomic number and shows up black . |
| 7 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 8 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 9 | And Jesus said that God 's dominion , the rule of Heaven , is something like a mustard seed which starts out tiny and ends up big . |
| 10 | Brand B sells at £75 per month and takes up 7 metres of space . |
| 11 | Brand A sells at £150 per month and takes up 10 feet of shelf space . |
| 12 | Brand C sells at £39 per month and takes up 13 metres of space . |
| 13 | Brand D sells at £315 per month and takes up 20 feet of space . |
| 14 | The political-economic structures behind the range of choices is the next necessary analytical step and opens up wider concerns at the local , national and international level . |
| 15 | DataServe for VME , the base software product , provides what is basically a remote procedure call mechanism for VME , and opens up corporate data stored on ICL 's IDMSX mainframe data stores to different environments . |
| 16 | Zoe goes for it and plucks up some courage while Leonard asserts himself and makes a decision . |
| 17 | He leans forward and picks up one of his legs and pulls it right out from his trousers . |
| 18 | He grins at the effect he has produced , and picks up more cheese crumbs on his finger . |
| 19 | The sea breeze blows in Enfant-Béate and turns the tropical heat to balm of an evening , it stirs the jade-like waxy foliage above the elephantine trunk and picks up these entreaties made by islanders who come here with their offerings : the tack or nail , made of tin or brass or iron or copper , supplied by the goods store at sharp expense , one of the manufactures that are sent from the mother country in return for sugar . |
| 20 | In my dreams , Tom Waits , sick of life in the CD racks of the brain-dead baby boomer scum , moves to Seattle and picks up three thrash-lobotomised longhairies with whom to party . |
| 21 | If you have a low income and no more than £8,000 savings , you may qualify for Income Support , which is paid weekly and tops up any Income you have to a level set by the Government . |
| 22 | Hot water from the boiler passes through the hot cylinder , and heats up stored water that is then fed to the hot taps . |
| 23 | Since 1919 , great armies of faceless conifers have stamped their way across the highlands and the lowlands , Sitka spruce now covers half a million hectares and makes up 52 per cent of conifers planted by the Forestry Commission in Scotland and Wales . |
| 24 | Milk disagrees and comes up sour . |