Example sentences of "up and [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mother crumbled it up and sprinkled dry salt over it instead . |
| 2 | We got off and took cover for a while , then came up and got another bus to Fulham . |
| 3 | A Greek oil tanker broke up and spilled 12,000 tonnes of light crude oil off the west coast of Australia on 21 July , creating what was described as the country 's worst such environmental disaster . |
| 4 | So people would phone up and complain that noise throughout the night was mainly concent er mainly down to the blues parties ? |
| 5 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 6 | What , you 're going to get two four bedroomed houses and two double garages up and retain some trees in that bit ? |
| 7 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 8 | Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians . ’ |
| 9 | The two basic strategies for reducing smoking related disease are to support existing smokers in giving up and to dissuade young people from starting . |
| 10 | ‘ Your hair , ’ she said , ‘ your hair , ’ and reached up and took sliding handfuls of it , and the kiss changed , became the kiss of before . |
| 11 | So , I think possibly a little more thought in the actual , I think the actual shape of the girl there , the way she 's actually sitting is fine , but er it , it looks as if she 's been propped up with , you know , you better put this stool under your foot to hold that up and put this crutch under your arm to hold that up and |
| 12 | The RSPCA want Magistrates to toughen up and ban cruel owners for a minimum of 5 years , if not more , to prevent them from harming animals like the unfortunate Max again . |
| 13 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The people coming to the party were a bit daft and probably would have picked it up and done some damage with it . ’ |
| 15 | Quite clearly the reason that people have been asked to come along this evening and have come along this evening is to put there points of view about how the see the theatre in the future what is programme facilities are the things that are n't happening here they feel should be happening here that 's what it 's for not here to serve any purpose for individuals to get up and make personal cuts on people or say what happen on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon cos I |
| 16 | Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in ? |
| 17 | You measure those up and make little templates to scale to represent them . |
| 18 | Just before midnight she got up and swallowed two aspirins with some water which she hoped would calm her down . |
| 19 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 20 | You will move poor children from here to there ’ and he lifted up and evacuated imaginary children from one side of his blotting pad to the other . |
| 21 | ‘ But there are still all these fans of our first record — especially on the continent , they 're really frank here — who come right up and say funny things like ( in a thick Scandinavian accent ) ‘ T'was not superior , but was OK ’ and ‘ So much lovey pop — ridiculous ’ . |
| 22 | I was a chargehand and then I just drifted into being a Redcoat , and getting up and doing five minutes on stage and enjoying it . |
| 23 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 24 | Now she stood up and pushed both hands into the pockets of her jeans . |
| 25 | They are incredible divers , making perfect plunges into the foaming waters where the fall churns them up and disturbs aquatic life for them to feed on . |
| 26 | I had not worked before as a waitress so I ended up with most of the easy jobs like washing up and cleaning left overs from the plates ! |
| 27 | Er he he 'd just taken some photographs out of last year 's er annual report and put a heading up and stuck some text on it . |
| 28 | Who knows , he may even feel well enough to get up and enjoy some lunch with you . ’ |
| 29 | Every two years or so , production staff would be faced with a choice : shut down the plant for two weeks to avoid an explosion or let the contraption blow up and restart full production on the following day . |
| 30 | In July 1337 , after a series of negotiations with the wool merchants , the king obtained an agreement under which a select group of wealthy merchants would be empowered to buy up and export 30,000 sacks of wool . |