Example sentences of "then [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 2 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 3 | They were saying about they keep asking her because she could be like page three models in the newspaper , she was like very even this really and then she just said I keep on going toilet and she 'd , she 'd then puke up in the toilet and she 'd come back and there were all these bite marks so her parents could see when she was doing it . |
| 4 | The song then builds up to ‘ five little fingers ’ . |
| 5 | Later , Mr Friel had refused his friend 's invitation to escort him home , then met up with the accused again by chance and been assaulted . |
| 6 | Then met up with Carl and about ten other people so we had a little , a little erm convoy . |
| 7 | People were clapping as he stumbled between the rows of seats with her and out into the garden , where she reached out one hand to clutch at the trunk of a flowering cherry , then doubled up over his arm to vomit into a tidy bed of daffodils . |
| 8 | The track then goes up through the forest to the crest of the hill . |
| 9 | In the case of practitioners , who are now included in the disputes procedure , that 's , that is then referred up to the Family Health Service Authority . |
| 10 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 11 | He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand . |
| 12 | He lifted Arkhina into the cart , and then got up beside her . |
| 13 | He slept immediately and deeply , and then got up at six a.m. to turn the television on and make the tea ready for when the man he lived with got in from work . |
| 14 | Then got up for a pee . |
| 15 | If any pieces of gold leaf have been chipped off to reveal the white base , there are various shades of gilt waxes which can be rubbed on with a soft cloth and then buffed up to a fine lustre . |
| 16 | HOUSE prices will stabilise and then pick up towards the end of the year , say estate agents and property analysts . |
| 17 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 18 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 19 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 20 | These molecules are then picked up by receptor proteins on the surface of the second cell . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she cried , beginning to gesticulate as she did when excited and then to square up like a boxer . |
| 22 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 23 | Start your arrangement around rim and then build up towards the middle to hide the foam |
| 24 | He 'd shaken up Evans , first bawling him out then ending up with a show of confidence in him with the Havana . |
| 25 | These features were then mixed up with features from the local cottages of Surrey and Sussex — the tiled roof , the tile-hung wall and the gable . |
| 26 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 27 | KMnO 4 was then added up to 4 mM and incubation continued for 30 seconds at 37°C . |
| 28 | A trained work elephant then moved up on either side , rather like tugs docking a ship . |
| 29 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 30 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |