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Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .
2	At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar .
3	Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’
4	One man who 's going to stay upstairs has the head of the wardrobe , you go tro I go trotting downstairs you see , and then I climb up the ladder And the ladder remember is over the edge of the sill .
5	And then I goes up the shute .
6	Then I plucked up the courage to start moving around on my own and began walking down a path when the gentleman in grey asked people to stand aside , and I stepped well back .
7	Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head .
8	Then I climbed up the rope myself .
9	I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
10	‘ Jesus Christ , ’ I thought , ‘ to have marched all night , then someone blows up the kitchen ! ’
11	You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit .
12	What we have to say is , straight from Essex Police if that happens to you , get out , wherever possible on the passenger 's side of the vehicle and then go to your nearest box and then you pick up the receiver and get through the police control room and they will ask you a series of questions , have you broken down ?
13	Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave .
14	Puzzled at first , she turned every page , then she held up the book by its spine and let the pages flutter ; no sheet of paper fell out .
15	Then she gave up the struggle and dropped on her knees beside Debbie .
16	Then she picked up the wicker bird cage and took it to the sill .
17	Then she picked up the book of ‘ psychological correspondences ’ again and began with difficulty to read the letters .
18	Then she picked up the letter with the neatly typed address .
19	She waited until she heard the outer door close , then she picked up the receiver .
20	Then she tore up the sheet .
21	Ellen held her happy smile till the courtesy taxi had disappeared , then she tore up the proctologist 's business card .
22	But even then we divided up the list and had at least an aisle between us .
23	And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful !
24	But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’
25	It stared at it for a moment , rubbing its arms , and then it picked up the telephone .
26	Three rounds after combat begins , the forest catches up with the adventurers , and then it spreads up the hillside at a rate of 16 yards per round .
27	It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable .
28	The first taste was fresh and innocuous , then it lit up the throat with a burst of sunshine : it hit the gut with a throb of heat .
29	Then he scooped up the bat , swept it back into the drawer , and composed himself at his chair .
30	I phoned Debby to get Steven 's phone number to get him to leave out the microphone and the amplifier and then he brought up the microphone and did n't bring up the amplifier .