Example sentences of "up and have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up and had another little walk around , finishing up just over the road from Buckingham Palace . |
| 2 | The gasman had told us it would blow up and had stuck on a waning sign to remind us . |
| 3 | Before leaving school we had knelt on the floor in a row to make sure our hem lines touched the ground , just grazed it , and then we had stood up and had our knickers checked . |
| 4 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |
| 5 | But she was n't worried about the way the script finished up and had apparently asked for changes herself . |
| 6 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |
| 7 | Emil , the chefs , Oliver and Cathy had finished cleaning up and had all gone off duty . |
| 8 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 9 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 10 | Widower Lennie , 80 , was beaten up and had his toes sliced with a knife until he told the thugs where his wife 's jewellery was kept . |
| 11 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 12 | How many times have you told yourself you could not do something but when you ultimately faced up and had a go , to your amazement you succeeded . |
| 13 | " Thank God you did , or I 'd have cracked up and had even less money saved than I have now . " |
| 14 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 15 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 16 | Originally most had been placed satisfactorily but they had not been followed up and had drifted away two or three years later as circumstances changed . |
| 17 | Jed had watched his parents ' marriage break up and had never said a word ; he was hardly likely to start making his feelings known now . |
| 18 | No need to go to bed when Amabel went because she did not like to keep the servants sitting up and had had nightmares , ever since Gemma 's birth , about accidents with bedtime candles . |
| 19 | It is true that in peacetime a large proportion of these ships were normally laid up and had their crews paid off : only when war was imminent or had broken out were they brought back into service . |
| 20 | The police had done a reasonable job of cleaning up and had put a plastic sheet over the hole in the window to keep the rain out . |
| 21 | Instead of biopsy specimens , gastrectomy specimens were investigated for 10 patients : five were untreated and five were being followed up and had finally to undergo total gastrectomy . |
| 22 | Although projects for the reform of the courts were being drawn up and had in some cases been completed , " the date of their publication can not yet be predicted with any certainty " . |
| 23 | Then the Prince came up and had a try and he did n't do any better . ’ |
| 24 | Well of course you can guess the rest , I took it up and had it valued and then put in an auction . |
| 25 | Half an hour later she was dealing with a small crisis that had cropped up and had forgotten all about Mr Massingham as she sent Jimmy on an urgent trip for some paperwork she needed . |
| 26 | Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared . |
| 27 | A straggler had also been rounded up and had rejoined the other whales . |
| 28 | sat around a little bit , got up and had a walk , find a |
| 29 | It 's questions and answers , I do n't know , I 've forgotten , I , I , I only opened it up and had a look at it at Christmas and I thought thirty something pounds for that , a load of rubbish , I do n't know what it is . |
| 30 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |