Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | half past eight , right , by the time I and pick up |
| 2 | Can you not start with being in love with someone and end up by loving them ? |
| 3 | But now that her once-passionate nature was reawakening and she was beginning to feel vibrantly alive again , the cold perfunctory touch of her husband 's fingers seemed suddenly more repugnant than ever before , and she withdrew her hand hastily from his and picked up her glass to conceal the real reason for breaking the contact . |
| 4 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 5 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 6 | Jesus put it in these words , ‘ If any man would come after me , let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. , |
| 7 | Jesus told his disciples , if any man would come after me , let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me . |
| 8 | ‘ Lager and whisky , eh ? ’ he said , nodding to himself and taking up his magazine again . |
| 9 | Fernando brought her a drink of orange juice and one for himself and pulled up another lounger next to her . |
| 10 | He observed from the way peter Yeo gathered himself and sat up straight that he was on familiar territory , and understood further that the general patter was well rehearsed . |
| 11 | He tried to clear the rubbish himself and stayed up all night in the hope that workmen would tackle the job . |
| 12 | He unwound himself and stood up , grinned unrepentantly at them both and sauntered out . |
| 13 | ‘ Damned if I know , ’ I said truthfully and she said OK and See Ya and hung up . |
| 14 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
| 15 | Jane managed to help me and bring up two children without outside help . |
| 16 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 17 | He keeps touching me and Harried up and once he took us both off into a little room to tell us off and stroked Harriet 's leg . |
| 18 | It 's a glorious , peaceful summer day — why ca n't you just lie back like me and soak up some of those gorgeous golden rays ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 20 | Benjamin heard the faint crackling in the undergrowth but took one look at me and gave up any idea of pursuit . |
| 21 | He pushed away from me and stood up and stumbled over to a wooden chest , tearing one of its drawers right out so that it crashed to the carpeted floor and a load of jumpers fell out . |
| 22 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been lying to me and covering up for them all along . |
| 24 | Everyone laughs and I think I said the wrong thing , but Peter smiles at me and stands up . |
| 25 | ‘ He opened his chamber door , smiled at me and picked up his cat . ’ |
| 26 | If most of the plants have finished , discard them and plant up with spring-flowering bulbs or winter-interest dwarf shrubs . |
| 27 | Sequins can be overlapped too , like scales ; it is really fun choosing them and building up a picture |
| 28 | After the liberation they had found their old apartment undamaged , moved back in and set about recreating their old life of searching out young artists , arranging exhibitions for them and building up their own collection of European art . |
| 29 | Dzerzhinsky wrote that the swifter exchange of goods would help to reduce taxes levied on the peasants and so mollify them and speed up the realization of smychka between town and country ; but towards the end of the year he admitted in a resigned tone : ‘ Can such a huge enterprise like transport really change in a moment , can people really be regenerated at once ? |
| 30 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |