Example sentences of "[verb] up and [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 2 | She did n't dare look up and shrank into a ball , knees to chin , loaf held between crossed arms and her chest . |
| 3 | I knew the type : five years of self-employed brickying , then sell up and buy into a pub near Clacton or Southend and spend the summer serving light-and-bitter to self-employed brickies on a day out with the kids from Peckham or Deptford . |
| 4 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'll not sell up and go into a Home , that 's for sure , ’ said his Dad . |
| 6 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 7 | Why were n't they off photographing the three hundred bodies that the Americans were digging up and dumping into a mass grave ? |
| 8 | At this , the grandmother stood up and shuffled into a little hut-like concrete alcove , her bedroom , and emerged carrying something in a handkerchief . |