Example sentences of "up and take " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed his wife 's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand . |
| 2 | ( Max gets up and takes off her turban . |
| 3 | He reaches up and takes the oregano off the spice rack . |
| 4 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 5 | Connections between the men 's behaviour in the bar and the roomful of college boys who cheer a news report discrediting Sarah Bob , one of the rapists gets up and takes a bow — and crucially , with the male provenance of the District Attorney 's office . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean the work of Mr Clancy , ’ said Peggy , as he stood up and took the towel she gave him . |
| 7 | Now he drew himself up and Took Control . |
| 8 | Sandy Lyle , Nick Faldo , Bernhard Langer , all looked up and took note . |
| 9 | Mungo reached up and took it down , sending more marbles cannoning across the floor as he moved a foot . |
| 10 | However , when Mary stood up and took hold of the reins that were trailing on the ground , she thrashed the horse with her cane . |
| 11 | She gave a slight , sad smile , stood up and took a few paces round the bedroom . |
| 12 | Agnes did not make the mistake now of asking her customer how much he intended to spend on the acid drops ; she reached up and took down the jar and , tilting it , tipped some acid drops into the scale ; then , putting the glass lid back onto the jar , she returned the whole to the shelf before once again blowing into a small paper bag and depositing the sweets inside . |
| 13 | He stood up and took his stole from the shelf where he always kept it . |
| 14 | He sat up and took a piece of mud-coloured rag out of his pocket and wiped his face . |
| 15 | As the fire burnt down , the duergar got up and took a log lying to the right of the fire and placed it amongst the embers . |
| 16 | The Colonel strode up and took the dead woman in his arms . |
| 17 | No spare parts were available but a small bus-load of Indian servants from our diocesan girls ’ school in Rangoon picked me up and took me on with them . |
| 18 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |
| 19 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 20 | She reached up and took the stone out of his hand . |
| 21 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 22 | The rugby world stood up and took notice and Best was marked out as a man destined for greater things . |
| 23 | Today , only the altar candlesticks had been forgotten ( it was Elaine Dodswell and Trish Pardoe 's week and they could at least be relied upon ) so Anna gathered them up and took them home to polish . |
| 24 | Fred reached up and took her hand from his shoulder , squeezing it gently in his . |
| 25 | A lift pulled up and took me away . |
| 26 | I got up and took the pudding plates into the kitchen . |
| 27 | Artemis reached up and took it down off the shelf . |
| 28 | JoJo stood up and took them out to the kitchen . |
| 29 | She stood up and took a roll of bills out of her purse . |
| 30 | ( She did not stay long ; an uncle of hers turned up and took her to live with him in Manchester . ) |