Example sentences of "up and [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years .
2 At this point my colleague behind me ( British passport holder , immaculately dressed , well spoken ) stepped up and casually pushing forward his passport said : ‘ Oh he 's all right , teaches at London University . ’
3 Of the fruit-eating pigeons , obligate frugivores in tropical Australia , one group does not take grit and the seeds are passed through the gut while the pericarp is digested , but the brown and white-headed pigeons have a large muscular gizzard typical of columbids and take grit , which means that the seeds are ground up and later digested .
4 First you have to dig out all the junk , bag it up and probably lug it through the house .
5 So I said , frankly , all I 'll get is your laundry , another cup , saucer and plate to wash up and probably a great deal more you-know-what than I need ! ’
6 Because wha we 're talking about a very age old attitude which is that a mother and a father and their children ar , is the correct unit , should stay together , at least until the children are grown up and probably well beyond ?
7 Then she must sit in the sun before hauling it back up and altogether I was enraged and wished I was in a condition to show her how it should be done .
8 ‘ Next person please ! ’ requested the check-out girl snappily and Meredith was forced to move up and hastily unload her goods on to the conveyor belt .
9 The heavy rain did not let up and soon the vast crowds had churned the whole area into a sea of mud .
10 Very shortly afterwards the young man was called up and sadly , he was killed in action a few weeks later .
11 She took the material off of the wall , and all her shoes and make up and just about everything cept the big stuff .
12 My patience snapped and I said : ‘ Do shut up and just listen for a moment . ’
13 What I am saying is that it is never too late to reformulate your goals : do n't give up and just accept your lot as if it were a sentence handed out by life .
14 He sat holding his head in his hands for half an hour , but after that he stood up and just got on with it .
15 Shut up and just for once listen to me ! ,
16 If we have no understanding of cultural politics , of the way that civil society offers openings and opportunities for progressive change , then frankly , we might as well give up and just enjoy the ‘ consumer spectacle ’ .
17 So , as he concluded he asked Hannah to stand up and just say ‘ hello ’ — that 's all .
18 You can surely stand up and just put your arms round me . ’
19 We 've got a two hundred and thirty million pound gap to make up and just to put this into some sort of context , the fares will give us slightly less than fifty million .
20 They were rubbed with soot at the edges and to you know , just And then polished up and just to make them look er antique .
21 But er then there was others sort of cheap joints you know , they just rushed things up and just a couple of just er When you see some of th You know that goodwill shop that that the thing when you when you see a lot of the things that 's supposed to be polished , you know , they 're just varnished over .
22 Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about .
23 This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out .
24 Have them fucking ready made up and just
25 went back up and just
26 what 's happened to all the , the stuff in , you know you could pick them up and just eat them straight away
27 He says they lifted his eyelid up and just poured water in it and when they finished he says that he says
28 I might phone them up and just , ask them if there 's any jobs going after Christmas sort of thing
29 and it he 'll come up and just cuddle into the side of you without
30 Now on the angle that you did there the degrees can you add those up and just before you start drawing it you should always add them up and make sure they all come to three sixty cos if it comes to four hundred it 's going to go right round and a bit further than once round .
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