Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concrete slabs were taken up and replaced with a crazy paving patio , and gradually they developed their plans , as money allowed . |
| 2 | It 's very easy for young people to come into politics , full of enthusiasm and full up of get up get up and go and many of them get up and go after a few years . |
| 3 | old Army General , line up and get in a single line |
| 4 | When the cork is extracted the slush-like sediment shoots out of the bottle and , because the rest of the wine remaining in the bottle is at a much lower temperature than normal , the gas is reluctant to escape , hence there is no spray of foam and the bottle may be topped up and recorked with a minimal loss of pressure . |
| 5 | We had a brilliant time and it 's a pity you only get to do it once : Maybe we 'll split up and reform under a different name — so we can have a crack at it next year . |
| 6 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 7 | Leading at that stage by two strokes , the conservative thing to do was lay up and settle for a five . |
| 8 | The ‘ lady ’ in question was heavily made up and dressed in a tight sheath of black and gold lurex that ended provocatively at mid-thigh . |
| 9 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 10 | He stood up and went to a battered grey filing cabinet , rummaged through it , and grunted . |
| 11 | Doubles up and screams with a hot , flushed face and sweat . |
| 12 | At this , the grandmother stood up and shuffled into a little hut-like concrete alcove , her bedroom , and emerged carrying something in a handkerchief . |
| 13 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 14 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 15 | Finally the kite was finished , fully made up and lying like a collapsed tent on the grass , green on green . |
| 16 | DEC claims 2,000 development sites for OSF/1 1.2 on Alpha , with 400 applications up and running with a further 1,000 committed . |
| 17 | It had been opened up and re-stitched in a different coloured thread . |
| 18 | Steam for 70 min , by the end of which time the pudding will be perfectly puffed up and set with a just-molten streak in the centre . |
| 19 | Why were n't they off photographing the three hundred bodies that the Americans were digging up and dumping into a mass grave ? |
| 20 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 21 | They would therefore be bunched up and arrive at a faster rate . |
| 22 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |