Example sentences of "then [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell .
2 They were saying about they keep asking her because she could be like page three models in the newspaper , she was like very even this really and then she just said I keep on going toilet and she 'd , she 'd then puke up in the toilet and she 'd come back and there were all these bite marks so her parents could see when she was doing it .
3 Later , Mr Friel had refused his friend 's invitation to escort him home , then met up with the accused again by chance and been assaulted .
4 The track then goes up through the forest to the crest of the hill .
5 In the case of practitioners , who are now included in the disputes procedure , that 's , that is then referred up to the Family Health Service Authority .
6 He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand .
7 HOUSE prices will stabilise and then pick up towards the end of the year , say estate agents and property analysts .
8 I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way .
9 Start your arrangement around rim and then build up towards the middle to hide the foam
10 I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram .
11 Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face .
12 ‘ My Lady Maude will come to the tournament , ’ he said , then looking up at the friar , tapped the side of his fleshy nose .
13 Then looking up towards the ceiling , he added , ‘ I wonder what she 'll turn out to be like , that young 'un ? ’
14 You then catch up with the field on the Isle of Dogs at the 17.5 mile-mark .
15 AT TREVOR , I crossed the Dee by Thomas Telford 's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct , built nearly 200 years ago to carry barges on the Shropshire Union Canal across the deep valley ; then cycled up past the church on steep Methodist Hill , built surely as a penance for sinning churchgoers .
16 Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach .
17 Put the boat into the boat-house and made the doors fast , then came up to the house .
18 Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson .
19 It will be deducted from the loss and payment then made up to the policy limit .
20 The Kates actually drop their torpedoes and then climb up over the ship superstructures as the torpedoes hit home .
21 It is then written up as the business strategy or plan together with a detailed plan for implementation .
22 The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying .
23 The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh .
24 I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room .
25 Having walked the Gorges of Kakouetta and then rested up in the benign landscape of Sainte-Engrâce , you may feel you have the legs back to inspect another of the spectacular limestone phenomena of the Upper Soule .
26 I soon had an armful , then clambered up off the shingle to the better walking of the salt-washed turf where the burn , dividing into deep peaty runnels , cut its way to the shore .
27 The prey is then drawn up to the mouth and swallowed whole .
28 Blake DJ-ed at the city 's legendary Tresor club and then hitched up with the club 's label and producers Thomas Fehlmann and Moritz Von Oswald .
29 He added , however , that former Sunderland player Billy Bingham , the Northern Ireland manager , might be prepared to reach a compromise with his old club possibly allowing Rogan to play for at least part of the match against Swindon and then link up with the rest of the squad on the day of the international .
30 It is usual to assume that the pupils will be able to use close-range materials on the desk or table in front of them , and then look up to the blackboard , perhaps to copy notes or diagrams displayed there , then quickly refocus on to their desk work .
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