Example sentences of "up and [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , wages only began to catch up and threaten a widening wage/price spiral in 1973 . |
| 2 | He had bent down , his hand among the grasses but as she spoke he straightened up and thrust a grubby fist into his pocket . |
| 3 | Elizabeth looked up and saw a brown uniform and a friendly face , framed in the lovely black hair typical of the Maltese . |
| 4 | He looked up and saw a wooden stave falling towards his head . |
| 5 | I looked up and saw a big-ribbed canopy of light pink and white descending over me , and the next moment I felt myself drawn downward , feet first , and I realised that I was being swallowed by a whale . |
| 6 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 7 | Suddenly , a complete stranger jumped up and said an impromptu prayer for John , and then another . |
| 8 | " Well , " Ajayi said , leaving the open entrance to the balcony as a light wind picked up and blew a small flurry of snow around her booted feet , " at least the game 's over . " |
| 9 | Just like the other doctors , it has scrubbed up and donned a protective gown before starting work in Sacramento , California . |
| 10 | The small group halted as Springfield and the other ran up and formed a loose throng around them . |
| 11 | Well I think it 's best to , yeah yeah , I mean o the best thing to do is actually lift it up and use a little bit of the underneath to try out the colours what colour 's that going to be ? |
| 12 | ‘ I best not tell Nancy , or she might come up and 'ave a jealous fit all over the room . |
| 13 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |
| 14 | Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face , streaking the dirt still further . |
| 15 | Robyn looked up and forced a sarcastic smile . |
| 16 | ‘ They tried to play our style of basketball and it worked our guys up and brought a competitive edge out of them . ’ |
| 17 | Following the 1987 general election , Margaret Thatcher set up and headed a small committee to examine the health service . |
| 18 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 19 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 20 | ‘ Go to that place where you grew up and tell a local estate agent you want the cheapest thing he 's got . |
| 21 | Blufton stood up and plunged a pudgy hand into a concertina file . |
| 22 | Downstairs in the kitchen he found that Celia had done the washing up and left a fresh pint of milk and the morning 's mail on the table . |
| 23 | When the hatches were shut you could n't see where they were , but whenever the Thing was really interested in something it opened up and extended a small silver dish on a pole , or a complicated arrangement of pipes . |
| 24 | Having dared , with one or two others , to open the door , I feel I 've been trampled in the rush and I 'm now standing up and waving a little flag saying , ‘ No , no , this is where we should be . ' |
| 25 | Stella jumped up and made a clattering show of stacking the supper plates onto a tray . |
| 26 | The plan of a slave ship issued by Clarkson was also extensively taken up and became an antislavery print . |
| 27 | Eventually when the public are fed up and lodge a sufficient number of protests , governments will take action , and action was taken in 1991 when Parliament passed an Act called ‘ The Property Misdescriptions Act ’ . |
| 28 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
| 29 | David Kewley , she will set up and manage a new department ( made up of the book club and book fair editorial staff ) responsible for the selection , acquisition and exploitation of the sales potential of the books and other products bought for sale through the company 's book clubs and book fairs . |
| 30 | Stand up and make a positive statement . |