Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | David agreed to go and ended up liking it . |
| 2 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 3 | Wang Xizhe , a factory worker from Guangzhou , was an activist in the pro-democracy movement in China who helped to write and put up a 100-metre newspaper wall in his city in 1974 which attracted worldwide interest . |
| 4 | She stopped shouting and gave up hammering on the door . |
| 5 | Then she let go and straightened up , standing there knee deep in the water at the bottom of the unlit channel , the first light lain like a white cloth over the latticework of the surrounding fields , picking out the channel 's lips , the crouching shape of Sung . |
| 6 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 7 | Both children stopped playing and looked up to see who had called them . |
| 8 | The Kawasaki cut through to St Paul 's as I 'd expected and accelerated up towards Holborn . |
| 9 | From March 1743 he began to preach and built up a network of religious societies in Derbyshire , Cheshire , and south-east Lancashire , which soon became part of the Methodist organization led by John Wesley [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | I looked to where she pointed and began to laugh and jump up and down . |
| 11 | All of a sudden he began to laugh and jump up and down . |
| 12 | ‘ We were leaving a bar which had ripped us off and Simon started giggling and piling up pot plants from the window boxes all over our car . |
| 13 | Anyway the local rag , the Sentinel , had a headline ‘ The Magnificent seven ’ which he proceeded to photocopy and stick up everywhere . |
| 14 | Now , when he tried to read instead , the lights kept flickering and screwing up his concentration . |
| 15 | Erm you did try and pick up , I think you realized that er you had n't done your ref er your referrals properly at the beginning and you actually came back to it erm at the end erm trying to pick up on where you left off and erm Martin was very non-committal at that point . |
| 16 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 17 | So after a quick pint with the assembled group members ( Gav , Charles , Stuart , Paul ) we had to go and queue up . |
| 18 | So he had to go and clear up . |
| 19 | . I remember one thing , talking about things falling out and one of We had to go and pick up erm er er There was a great business you know about these er what are they called these these games . |
| 20 | Main guerrilla groups such as the FARC and the ELN , however , continued campaigns of economic sabotage and showed little interest in the government 's offer of peace talks or of following the example of the Maoist Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) and Revolutionary Workers ' Party ( PRT ) which had demobilized and taken up seats in the National Constituent Assembly [ see p. 37958 ) . |
| 21 | When Ruth had brushed and pinned up her mistress 's red-brown hair , which always shone as though newly burnished , she thought how lovely Mrs Carson looked . |
| 22 | Then , while Leith was again holding down the urge to hit him , and seeing that he 'd prefer not to sack her without just cause — thereby deeply offending his cousin — he had bent and picked up his briefcase . |
| 23 | She went on walking , and he had to run and catch up when she began speaking again . |
| 24 | Davide had seen the priests , who had shrugged and thrown up their hands indolently at the laundress 's problem . |
| 25 | Somehow the outside world had intruded and broken up the fabric of the tale . |
| 26 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’ |
| 27 | No I mean she she she , she wanted to try and set up on her own . |
| 28 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 29 | He wanted to rest and freshen up before foisting himself on you . ’ |