Example sentences of "[verb] up and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 2 | And if she came up and thought I had n't washed properly she would push my head under the water and hold it there . |
| 3 | I mean obviously if for example did n't ring up and say I want to sign your name your name tomorrow , I 'd ring her up to see whether she 'd lost her mind or something . |
| 4 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 5 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 6 | But the business we got from it wo n't be big , one lady rang up and said I heard about you on Radio York . |
| 7 | So he said , our Dawn rang up and said I wonder if she did my shift on Monday . |
| 8 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 9 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 10 | By being chopped up and reshaped I suppose . |
| 11 | If I were to begin to manage another major artist , and Mark Knopfler were to ring up and ask me to get the band back together for an album and a world tour , something would have to suffer . |
| 12 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 13 | Just shut up and let me get the fuck on with it . |
| 14 | Well shut up and let me shut the door |
| 15 | Okay , suppose Come Up And See Me goes in the charts and they ring you up and say , ‘ Steve , how do you fancy going on Top Of The Pops ? ’ |
| 16 | You know my mum came up , she comes up and says I know this already you know , mum came up , saying , |
| 17 | We sat and drank our tea in silence then Dad stood up and told me to tell Mum , when she returned , that he 'd gone to have one last talk to the relief officer . |