Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has painstakingly cooked , boned and chopped up every morsel for her fusspot . |
| 2 | At last , when all the stalls were full , Lady Amelia gestured to the cantor not to begin the usual psalms and caused a stir when she herself rose and swept up to the lectern . |
| 3 | She was busy and tired and underpaid and fed up . |
| 4 | Five months pregnant with her fifth child , Emecheta fled and ended up in a council block for problem families , which became the setting for In The Ditch . |
| 5 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 6 | He bent and scooped up the tin with the barrel of the revolver , and held it high . |
| 7 | ’ I 'll be needin' mair shag and all , ’ he bent and picked up the clay stump and peered into the empty bowl sadly . |
| 8 | His face was very close to hers as he bent and picked up the airline ticket from her desk . |
| 9 | He bent and picked up the bag , then eyed her curiously . |
| 10 | ‘ That last hedge you jumped , ’ her father said , breaking another seemingly endless silence as he stopped and stared up at the facade of the great house . |
| 11 | Michael Lever stopped and stared up at it . |
| 12 | Anna stopped and swung up her camera , angling it towards the shattered trunk and the grotesquely tortured boughs . |
| 13 | Finally , exhausted , she stopped and looked up . |
| 14 | Ben stopped and looked up from what he was doing . |
| 15 | Trevor Magee stopped and looked up as the pigeons took off , anxious to avoid him as he made his way across Trafalgar Square . |
| 16 | ‘ Also — ’ She stopped and looked up , and Snodgrass said , ‘ Someone 's coming . ’ |
| 17 | He stopped and looked up . |
| 18 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
| 19 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 20 | Willie stopped and gazed up at them . |
| 21 | FitzAlan dismounted and reached up to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 22 | Smooth and firm it had been under her own nervous touch , and she watched Miguel 's muscles , catching the sunlight as he dismounted and reached up to help her . |
| 23 | As the Marines and Petion backed away , Ace knelt and looked up at Benny . |
| 24 | She sat over her sewing , complaining that her eyes were getting old , and the yellow wax from the candle , skewered and hung up above their heads on a thread , dripped on the backs of her hands and made marks like the stains on old women 's hands . |
| 25 | As the floor levelled off the lights flickered and came up , the engine noise settling down to a steady background roar . |
| 26 | Outside , lightning flickered and lit up the glass reception doors . |
| 27 | She immediately sneezed and perked up , and her eyes opened wide . |
| 28 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 29 | He stooped and picked up the torn halves himself . |
| 30 | ’ Jim Kean stooped and picked up something from beside the ash-cold camp fire . |