Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was busy and tired and underpaid and fed up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 4 | I used to think , That 's a woman 's lot — forever being prodded and poked and looked up by doctors who are total strangers . |
| 5 | Its face was blunt and furred and screwed up as though about to burst into tears . |
| 6 | She got to her feet and went and picked up the phone . |
| 7 | And soon it will catch me up and I 'll be bloodsuckled and toothpluckled and stonechuckled and chewed up into tiny pieces , and then the Spittler will spit me out in a cloud of smoke and that will be the end of me ! ’ |