Example sentences of "up and [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Robert Topping , the Conservative Chief Agent , drew up and presented to Chamberlain a memorandum saying that ‘ from practically all quarters ’ he heard the view that the leader ought to go . |
| 2 | The list had been drawn up and presented to Cristiani by the independent Truth Commission , with responsibility under the peace agreement for ascertaining who was responsible for human rights violations during the civil war ( 1980-1991 ) . |
| 3 | Records of membership , subscriptions and payments had to be kept , and at times of dispute , petitions and other statements of grievances were drawn up and presented from at least the beginning of the eigh-teenth century . |
| 4 | Well with this stuff , they could n't do that and then they they they their stomach used to get compacted the they they they could n't er could n't er get their cud up and caused a lot of stomach trouble . |
| 5 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 6 | I think if he 's making pronouncements which are being picked up and treated as very important , and they 're only being treated as important because of his position then he should be ba , getting his facts right ! |
| 7 | It had been decided in July 1944 that the Cabinet Committee on post-War Civil Aviation should be wound up and replaced by a Minister responsible specifically for this area of policy . |
| 8 | The concrete slabs were taken up and replaced with a crazy paving patio , and gradually they developed their plans , as money allowed . |
| 9 | Edouard thought of Isobel 's family , of her grandfathers , uncles , cousins , who had propped up and maintained an empire , who had fought , and ruled , in India , in Africa . |
| 10 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 11 | Though he might seem a minor political nuisance , his name was on the list of those to be rounded up and interned . |
| 12 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |
| 13 | He held his hands up and proclaimed : ‘ I do n't want to get into a big row over this and therefore I wo n't offend Woman 's Own Own and say they 're wrong . |
| 14 | A US Senate subcommittee survey of 1975 reports the case of a seventeen-year-old Detroit schoolgirl who was awarded massive damages after being beaten up and stabbed with pencils by thirty girl classmates who apparently resented that she was more attractive than they and received better grades . |
| 15 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 16 | It 's not just the spots , he 's all puffed up and swollen with it . |
| 17 | The villages of Yater and Kafra were seized by Israeli troops , and buildings were blown up and searched for rockets ; 25 Lebanese and two Israelis were reported killed and four members of the Fijian contingent of UNIFIL were wounded , two of them seriously . |
| 18 | The blunt end of the club suddenly came up and pressed against his cheek , and then moved around to rest against his teeth . |
| 19 | As the tiny head , covered in silky black hair , nestled warmly in the palm of her hand , she had looked up and met eyes full of tenderness and love , eyes the colour of slate . |
| 20 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 21 | The feeling was soughing through them , every face was turned fully towards him , features naked , eyes widened ( they were too expectant , too dependent on the next sally , their wills must be gathered up and channelled towards an irresistible action ) . |
| 22 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 23 | Other highlights : when Leeds scored the fact that all around the ground Leeds fan stood up and cheered ( really narking off the so-called Cov boot-boys ) ; Rocky warming up and actually kicking the ball when it came near him ; Leeds fans singing ‘ Sydney ! |
| 24 | In despair , one day , of finding a well-fitting winter coat , she hastily counted up the amount of land around Tollemarche which her husband had bought up and decided he was worth at least a Persian lamb coat . |
| 25 | And on the very day when she had woken up and decided to divorce him , to celebrate the fact that she finally had a life of her own ; a life which did n't include Julius Landor . |
| 26 | Shocks , storms , rages , accusations ; long family discussions , the children much involved , things patched up and smoothed over , the family united . |
| 27 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 28 | The women were beaten up and called ’ fucking dykes ’ in sight of the Rape Survivors rape crisis counsellor . |
| 29 | The morning room carpet rolled up and boxed in place . |
| 30 | There had been a further recent development ; only a couple of days ago Herr Hamnett 's brother , another agreeable young gentleman , had turned up and collected his entire belongings . |