Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna stopped and swung up her camera , angling it towards the shattered trunk and the grotesquely tortured boughs . |
| 2 | ’ Jim Kean stooped and picked up something from beside the ash-cold camp fire . |
| 3 | A world was coming in which it would almost certainly never again be possible to walk quietly , as Frederica and Alexander walked , through the village where Van Gogh tramped and set up his easel in the clean dust . |
| 4 | Then she turned and snatched up her rabbits , and ran for home with her bad news . |
| 5 | As we got to the narrow road that runs past the spot where Mr Marr used to watch the night sky , he turned and held up his hands towards the stars . |
| 6 | As Will turned and threw up his arms to head them off , Constance continued running . |
| 7 | He searched her eyes for a moment , then sighed and held up his hands in surrender . |
| 8 | Joseph nodded and picked up his drink . |
| 9 | Patrick nodded and pulled up his collar . |
| 10 | ‘ Jesus , ’ he repeated and turned up his collar and went up the path . |
| 11 | The groom smiled and put up his hand to stroke the scar . |
| 12 | He smiled and held up his sonic screwdriver with childish glee . |
| 13 | The superintendent paused and flicked up her eyebrows . |
| 14 | Cornelius shrugged and took up his luggage . |
| 15 | So Lucie shrugged and threw up his hands in the way that suddenly betrayed his French stock : |
| 16 | Finn shrugged and picked up his brush . |
| 17 | She stood and picked up her jacket from the back of her chair . |
| 18 | Mandeville stood and picked up his cloak , thrown over the back of a chair . |
| 19 | The black artist appeared on the threshold , wrapped in a swirling black cloak , smiling most ferociously , and the little tailor quaked and held up his splinter , thinking his foe would be bound to meet it magically , or freeze his hand in motion as he struck . |