Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marco drew himself up and spoke boldly into the light . |
| 2 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 3 | Ed snatched it up and tried vainly to stick it back on . |
| 4 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 5 | He zipped himself up and strode onwards . |
| 6 | She lifted it up and saw that long ago the batteries had leaked and burnt the wood . |
| 7 | And then er did the rest of the scraping and then they er opened it up and took out all the intestines and er the livers and the lights and tongue and things like that . |
| 8 | I hauled myself up and peered out of the bars . |
| 9 | Having lifted Hector into the vehicle , where he sat on the floorboards , panting with his tongue lolling out , and wagging a satisfied tail , Benedict swung himself up and grinned down at her as he took the reins into his hand . |
| 10 | He pulled himself up and went on . |
| 11 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 12 | I rang him up and complained though ! |
| 13 | I cleaned myself up and checked out my patch , hoping I 'd find that tabby trespassing . |
| 14 | However this is a long job and at the end of the day I just gave it up and decided not to travel . |
| 15 | Each time a drawing came out that looked ‘ all right ’ , he seethed with dissatisfaction , tore it up and started again . |
| 16 | He listened , summed me up and nodded wisely . |
| 17 | I was knocked to the ground , and a kind passer-by picked me up and dusted down my soaking clothes as 1 watched Dana walking away into the night . |
| 18 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |
| 19 | Some time after dark , when the cans which had held chicken and plum pudding lay cold in a shallow pit , and when our plates and dishes had been scraped clean , we wrapped ourselves up and sat out of the wind , behind the Land Rover . |
| 20 | Angrily , Bernice picked herself up and went off down the winding path . |
| 21 | Crawling a little closer to the heat , she wrapped herself up and lay down , pillowing her head on her arm as she stared at the flickering flames . |
| 22 | Abruptly conscious of the shortness of her shorts and the inelegance of her position , she pushed herself up and jumped down . |
| 23 | He picked her up and sat down on a small settee , keeping his arm round her . |
| 24 | I picked it up and ran away . |
| 25 | He picked it up and ran out on to the platform hoping to return it to its owner . |
| 26 | I picked it up and bit deeply . |
| 27 | He picked it up and walked across . |
| 28 | She picked it up and stared blearily at it . |
| 29 | The wood finally landed on a beach in Hornsea where a man picked it up and drove off with it . |
| 30 | Mr Gay pulled a knife from his waistband , but was so drunk he dropped it and Cameron picked it up and fought back as he was beaten with a baton . |