Example sentences of "up and leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let the silence go on , and wondered about just getting up and leaving right then without one word , not one word of the torrent foaming in her guts . |
| 2 | Many old people in particular find it impossible to retire for the night without washing up and leaving everything tidy . |
| 3 | No getting up and leaving hospital in two days then . |
| 4 | White families are selling up and leaving ; we know several . |
| 5 | Again she felt like getting up and leaving — but to do that would mean walking out of her job . |
| 6 | Well , undergraduates getting very , very drunk and , you know , throwing up and leaving pools of vomit around for staff to clear up the next day erm , you know , one might say well are the college staff the victim of that . |
| 7 | They 'll give up and leave us to get on with some work I imagine . |
| 8 | The kuei will usually give up and leave a house in high dudgeon . |
| 9 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 10 | He had led an exciting life in boxing circles before he went away to the war and he did not consider himself to lack nerve , but the plan the little shifty-eyed character was setting out made Billy want to get up and leave right away . |
| 11 | The next morning we had to pack up and leave , as we had made reservations to visit the other Cayman Islands before returning home . |
| 12 | She would have to get up and leave the church . |
| 13 | Or perhaps there was some other , unofficial entrance , and right now she was getting ready to give up and leave by the same way . |
| 14 | Folly knew that she should get up and leave . |
| 15 | So I 'll be obliged if you two gents would drink up and leave . ’ |
| 16 | The only hope we 've got is to split up and leave the quarry in little groups , once we get back . |
| 17 | After a few minutes , he had had enough of this — and we had to get up and leave . ’ |
| 18 | I got up and left . |
| 19 | He also sold up and left because the only alternative in these miserable circumstances is to spend the rest of your life living next door to someone who will never speak to you again . |
| 20 | Stripped , tied up and left to freeze It sounds like torture — and it is for some young workers forced to endure outdated initiation rites . |
| 21 | Soon she declared that the sauna was suffocating ; after repeating once more how she hated modesty , she got up and left . |
| 22 | We lay there silently , then he got up and left the room , leaving me lying there in an agony of frustration and guilt , furious with myself for having given way , yet curiously glad I had finally done so . |
| 23 | He then got up and left . |
| 24 | In these scenes an unknown actress , impersonating Harlow 's voice , speaks the lines with her back to the camera or with her face hidden by a wide-brimmed hat ; at the sight of this , Boy simply got up and left the living room , left the end of the film unwatched and just sat in the kitchen with a pot of tea . |
| 25 | The knights were greatly offended at this foul sight , insomuch that they rose up and left the chamber . |
| 26 | Go left , down , right , then fall down , push the crate onto the button and go up on the lift , then left along the lower platform , push the crate left onto the switch , fall down , then go up on the lift , collect the speaker , fall down , go right and up on the lift , go left along the top platform , go up and left , go up on the lift , and continue going up on the platforms . |
| 27 | Go up and left , killing both the guards and the policeman with the crates . |
| 28 | Tell Lash she should be locked up and left to rot while some good people get all the letters . |
| 29 | Larry gave up and left the room and threw himself on to an armchair in the living-room . |
| 30 | We began by saying that William Titford moved house comparatively infrequently , and within a fairly limited area ; he and Mary Ann found new accommodation only once more in their married life together — as the children grew up and left home the parents moved to 48 Freegrove Road , Holloway , just off the Caledonian Road . |