Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the bedroom and picked up the cigar and put it back on the table . |
| 2 | A long and heart-felt kiss was interrupted by the phone and I hurried back into the bedroom and picked up the extension in time to hear Ed Grainger . |
| 3 | Initial priorities would be projects strengthening the infrastructure , privatization , reforming the financial sector , developing a productive and competitive private sector , restructuring industry , encouraging direct foreign investment and cleaning up the environment . |
| 4 | After winning the Berkhamsted he went back to his home club and picked up the Watson Trophy with a 69 . |
| 5 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 6 | I pushed the wrench down the side of Armstrong 's driving seat and wound up the engine . |
| 7 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 8 | You read the reviews , make up your mind and stump up the cash . |
| 9 | Whitlock shoved him back onto a tarpaulin in the corner of the warehouse and scooped up the Browning . |
| 10 | I straightened my shoulders , choked back a small tear for the loss of a good buddy and turned up the collar of my trenchcoat . |
| 11 | However , if a cell has too much cholesterol , it can be removed by an HDL particle colliding with the cell and picking up the cholesterol that is excess to requirements . |
| 12 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |
| 13 | To match the pattern , turn in the side of one width of fabric and line up the pattern with the width to which it will be joined . |
| 14 | Using the information in 2 above calculate the owners equity and draw up the balance sheet of Transom Trading as at 31 December 1991 . |
| 15 | She stopped her car and bustled up the pavement . |
| 16 | In the United States during the 1920s , job security and internal ‘ job ladders ’ ( i.e. promotion from within the firm ) began to be introduced , it has been claimed , partly in order to differentiate ( the semi-skilled ) labour force and break up the sense of solidarity that united a firm 's workers in collective opposition to their employer — and they were to prove particularly effective in forestalling unionism ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | As I stepped out of the boat and walked up the beach , I noticed that although the sun had been very hot , the air suddenly seemed cooler . |
| 18 | Clearly this was no place for me , and having tiptoed back to the sitting-room , I switched on a light and picked up the evening paper . |
| 19 | Senna capitalised on the absence of Mansell , the one driver who could have beaten the Brazilian and wrapped up the world championship in Prost 's favour . |
| 20 | Or as Marshall P. Knutt , the conscientious sanitary engineer who gets mistaken for a hot-shot and ends up the hero of Carry On Cowboy . |
| 21 | There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) . |
| 22 | I got half a dozen drunks and three women dressed as Mother Christmas and put them on a truck and we drove round the West End on the busiest shopping day of the year playing loud jazz and bunging up the traffic . |
| 23 | ‘ Having ignored the demand side and played up the supply side , Niskanen has unbalanced his theory ’ ( Jackson 1982 , p. 132 ) . |
| 24 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 25 | With most light piston twins the only way to unfeather a propeller is to move the pitch lever into the normal range and crank up the engine . |
| 26 | It was n't like working here , where I could slip into Spanish when things got ropey , and afterwards we 'd all go to the bar and tone up the group dynamics over a few drinks . |
| 27 | So we have and erm we 're gon na open up the top bar , top bar and ripping up the carpet |
| 28 | The practice of clipping below the gallery and throwing up the fleeces to a helper to put into the barn was followed here . |
| 29 | And of course , as I 'm the Editor and set up the rules for these features , I can cheat a little bit over costs … |
| 30 | I stuck my nose in the beaker and hoovered up the aroma in the approved fashion . |