Example sentences of "and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick picked up the receiver and listened for a moment , before muttering ‘ Wrong number ’ and hanging up . |
| 2 | Some foods which are normally eaten on a plate , such as scrambled eggs , are best eaten from a cup or bowl and spooned up . |
| 3 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 4 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 5 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |
| 6 | Many releasings are really re-releasings , that is owls from broken homes , like the first pair , or injured owls I 've nursed back to health and paired up . |
| 7 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 8 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 9 | Newman raised his own right hand in a diversionary gesture and whipped up his right foot . |
| 10 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 11 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 12 | The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine and whipped up into meringue peaks . |
| 13 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |
| 14 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
| 15 | Dalgliesh wondered why it was that , when walking towards the sea , there came a moment when its roar suddenly increased as if a menace , quiescent and benign , had suddenly realized and gathered up its power . |
| 16 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 17 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 18 | He turned to the altar again and gazed up at Paddy 's back and tried to concentrate . |
| 19 | A little way along , Vern stopped and sat on the very same wall and gazed up the gorge , like I 'd done , at the high flying bridge . |
| 20 | Willie stopped and gazed up at them . |
| 21 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 22 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 23 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 24 | Cedric sank happily on to the tattered hearthrug at his feet and gazed up adoringly at his new master . |
| 25 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 26 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 27 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 28 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 29 | ‘ Has that any special significance ? ’ she asked bravely as she crumpled down on to the blanket and gazed up at him . |
| 30 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |