Example sentences of "up and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to be grown up and ask people the way . |
| 2 | Ring up and ask , though it 's best to wait a few days until tutors have worked out exactly what position their courses are in . |
| 3 | If only a small number of publications are involved and you are not sure about photographs , ring up and ask . |
| 4 | But whatever you do , do not send out a general mailing and then ring up and ask whether the recipient is going to use it or not . |
| 5 | You could put your hand up and ask questions , and you were n't all up at a level on him , he was at the same level as you , talking , and he knew all our abilities so he explained things more clearly to us . |
| 6 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 7 | He could walk right up and ask it the question that burned within him . |
| 8 | But er I think from a comfort point of view er if you do feel the need to go to the toilet , please do n't er think that you 've got to put your hand up and ask . |
| 9 | There were some weekends when he would phone me up and ask if he could come round because he 'd thought of something new for me to do , and he 'd jump into his car and come all the way just to give me a new inflection on a word ! ’ |
| 10 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 11 | Or I might ri ring ring them up and ask them . |
| 12 | Yeah ring them up and ask them and then write a letter |
| 13 | You 've got to ring people up and ask them . |
| 14 | And then you 've got ta ring them up and ask them again to see who 's to see who Cos they usually say , Well I 'll see what I can do , and then you 've got to ring them up again and see if they 've done anything , and and er and then sometimes you 've got ta ring them up again . |
| 15 | Today he said er can our Joe come downstairs oh you go up and ask him . |
| 16 | Phone up and ask Hannah . |
| 17 | I mean , we could ring her up and ask her . |
| 18 | them up and ask them |
| 19 | Mrs Mrs rang me up and ask me about the one |
| 20 | Well what , what are you gon na do , go up and ask the bloke oh can you buy me a cake ? |
| 21 | ‘ I should like to bury something precious in every place where I 've been happy , ’ Sebastian had once told him , after wine and strawberries on a summer hilltop , ‘ and then , when I was old and ugly and miserable , I could come back and dig it up and remember . ’ |
| 22 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 23 | Benny was laughing to cheer them up and raise the mood again . |
| 24 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 25 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 26 | Once a grand place in its own grounds , suburban London had crept up and round it , trapping it among the terraced streets . |
| 27 | Then Frank arrived one weekend with a team of his workmates to wire the place up and install the plugs and light fittings . |
| 28 | His death was accidental , but the police would never believe that , and so they came to their terrible decision , to cut the body up and hide it . |
| 29 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 30 | She wanted to snatch them up and hide them away from the coolly assessing scrutiny that seemed to lay her bare . |