Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 2 | He bent and scooped up the tin with the barrel of the revolver , and held it high . |
| 3 | His face was very close to hers as he bent and picked up the airline ticket from her desk . |
| 4 | ’ I 'll be needin' mair shag and all , ’ he bent and picked up the clay stump and peered into the empty bowl sadly . |
| 5 | He bent and picked up the bag , then eyed her curiously . |
| 6 | Outside , lightning flickered and lit up the glass reception doors . |
| 7 | He stopped , looked down , then stooped and picked up the letter . |
| 8 | She stooped and picked up the post . |
| 9 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 10 | She saw the dawn when it came and pulled up the blind . |
| 11 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 12 | Apparently they either found me dad down the cellar or he recovered and come up the cellar like , you know . |
| 13 | But for the British infantryman , overburdened and attacking up the slope , speed was the one thing of which he was incapable . |
| 14 | They stopped near us , then turned and went up the ladder again . |
| 15 | They turned and went up the flight of stairs , a frieze of well-behaved actors . |
| 16 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 17 | Willie Moe snorted and picked up the boy by the leg and started to whirl him as if winding him up , which was part of a new routine called ‘ The Living Propeller ’ . |
| 18 | Preston sighed and picked up the news section . |
| 19 | Fred merely nodded and picked up the paper , pretending to be engrossed in an article , and Carrie afforded herself a sly grin . |
| 20 | The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill . |
| 21 | She got to her feet and went and picked up the phone . |
| 22 | He chuckled and picked up the phone . |
| 23 | The box with the question mark — ? — operates only with boxes 3 or 4 highlighted and calls up the technique numbers or cast on numbers as lists . |
| 24 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 25 | He braked and grabbed up the shotgun as he laid the bike over , sliding into the shelter of the woodpile . |
| 26 | He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it ! |