Example sentences of "john [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the questions task , the child was required to answer a why ? question about the action ( Why did John wind up the car ? ) . |
| 2 | The top picture depicted an action ( e.g. , John winding up the toy car ) , and the lower picture depicted a result of the action ( e.g. , the car going ) . |
| 3 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 4 | action ( e.g. , John winds up the car ) |
| 5 | John wound up the toy car to make it go . |
| 6 | John wound up the toy car because he wanted it to go . |
| 7 | John wound up the toy car so ( that ) it would go . |
| 8 | John wound up the toy car so it went . |
| 9 | In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) . |
| 10 | Explanations in the intentional mode express the relation between the action and the reason ( e.g. , John wound up the car because he wanted it to go ) . |
| 11 | In the sentence completion task , the child was asked to complete a sentence fragment which described the action and which ended in because or so ( John wound up the car because/so … |
| 12 | Philippa was dancing alone like Tinkerbell while Larry and John monkeyed up the mast and Conrad , suddenly bearded and old , fought the winds and the rain with his clenched fists . |