Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid danger you must start off sensibly and warm up slowly , says consumer magazine Which ? |
| 2 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 3 | He swallowed thickly and stood up wobbling slightly . |
| 4 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 5 | Then he had dashed back inside and curled up in his seat with his hands covering his ears until she came to take him home . |
| 6 | The gods were displeased again ! he thought facetiously and held up a hand , as if he read her thought . |
| 7 | Remember , it is important to start gently and build up slowly . |
| 8 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 9 | Sort out the jumbled lists below and match up the products and their descriptions , eg PVC raincoat |
| 10 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 11 | He parked himself in the seat opposite and picked up the menu . |
| 12 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 13 | He pushed the table back impatiently and stood up . |
| 14 | ‘ I have had patients who literally just laughed out loud and ended up cracking a rib . |
| 15 | If you wish to increase your writing speed , begin with sessions of two minutes or so and build up gradually . |
| 16 | This gentleman visited Miss Mack every 18 months or so and put up at the Bell for the week of his stay . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's breathing quite nicely and warming up now he 's in the cooker . |
| 18 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 19 | Then as a waiter passed by bearing a laden tray , he reached out swiftly and snatched up a glass of champagne . |
| 20 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 21 | The consequence is that Broad Lane 's two largest personalities have banged their heads together and come up with an undisclosed compromise in an effort to prevent Wivenhoe 's first relegation in 30 years of undiluted success . |
| 22 | Do n't work on it together and come up with the same . |
| 23 | I 'm sure we could er put our heads together and come up with something . |
| 24 | Come on , Fred , and all the others of like mind , get your act together and take up ‘ drag hunting ’ . |
| 25 | We put two and two together and came up with Barry . |
| 26 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |
| 27 | We used to build Lego together and make up stores about the fellows who lived in the Lego houses , and if Mike talked about me , people just thought he was making me up . |
| 28 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm working on it , ’ Chief Inspector Salter gathered his papers together and stood up . |
| 30 | After a while , I pulled myself together and stood up . |