Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 2 | Ben stopped smiling and picked up his spade . |
| 3 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 4 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 5 | The four set off along Brunel Road , following the tunnel wall until they passed the Labour Exchange then they veered left and picked up the road which ran alongside the river . |
| 6 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 7 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 8 | So Molly walked alone and ended up in front of another Martini painting in the Pinacoteca . |
| 9 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 10 | He swallowed hard and looked up at their faces . |
| 11 | I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion . |
| 12 | Before Lesley met Alan , she had been to a party where she got drunk and ended up sleeping with someone without knowing it . |
| 13 | No , quite clearly not , so A , B , D , E , all quite happy now where we went wrong and tripped up ? |
| 14 | I had a jumper that my mum knitted that went wrong and ended up twice the size it should have been . |
| 15 | For a few minutes the prisoner enjoyed the game , but then she suddenly felt wet and sat up . |
| 16 | This he grew long and combed up , due north . |
| 17 | I suddenly felt angry and stood up . |
| 18 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 19 | She sounded disgusted and fed up , and the word " Jack " was blown away like fluff . |
| 20 | Within minutes he had unclipped and set up his ladder bridge and negotiated the crossing to the fire escape platform with his customary ease . |
| 21 | The reason for the puzzling way in which the structure had deformed and broken up was thereby revealed and , since the static tests had shown that the structure was not fail-safe , the separation of the stabiliser in flight was satisfactorily explained . |
| 22 | I replaced Debonair and picked up Lovedolls . |