Example sentences of "up and [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he had lost his nerve and was too shy to go up and knock on the door . |
| 2 | He stands up and taps on the table for silence , intending to announce this new discovery , in the hope that it will cause yet more laughter , and increase his reputation for honesty still further . |
| 3 | Making up the slings of timber ready for Tiny Bennion 's crane to pick up and dump on the wharf . |
| 4 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 5 | Richard got up and balanced on the ball of one foot as if he had been seized by an attack of cramp . |
| 6 | I wafted down the face and traced out an elegant arc with my bottom turn , squirting a fountain of spume from my rail as I flew back up and pirouetted on the lip . |
| 7 | No they were oh no we brought them up and put on the shelf . |
| 8 | ( Max gets up and sits on the edge of his bed and smokes a pipe . |
| 9 | My theory was that these were ‘ deer roasts ’ left by hunters in historic times , when the game would be cut up and cooked on the hill where it was slain . |
| 10 | When she heard movement above — there was no shouting — Wilson went up and knocked on the door and was told , in the most mild of voices , to come in . |
| 11 | This one could , it could just about reach it over its paw and flicked it up and knocked on the door |
| 12 | For a round cake , roll the cake like a wheel along the strip , picking up and pressing on the marzipan as you go . |
| 13 | He set up and worked on a trauma unit before joining the ship . |
| 14 | Then flew up and settled on the girder of a pylon , showing off its ‘ yellow breast and head of solid gold ’ . |
| 15 | Cincom Systems ( UK ) Ltd is looking for beta testers for the Windows NT version of Supra Server : the relational database is already up and running on the iAPX-86 , R-series and Alpha versions of NT and it will available for £800 per user once the operating system ships . |
| 16 | Two support and maintenance offices will be up and running on the continent by the end of year . |
| 17 | InformationWeek quotes Taligent Inc chief executive Joe Guglielmi as saying his folks have a version of its object-oriented operating system up and running on an Apple Computer Inc Macintosh Quadra : Taligent , which intends publishing specifications this year followed by a developer 's kit , has also written some low-level applications for the system along the lines of Apple 's MacDraw — but the final system is not due until 1995 . |
| 18 | Instead of having a fit , it jumped up and sat on the piano , listening to the same music with great interest . |
| 19 | I put my stethoscope on her heart and listened to the increasingly faint , rapid beat then I straightened up and sat on the rug looking sightlessly into the fireplace , feeling the warmth of the flames on my face . |
| 20 | ‘ Melanie , will you slip up and put on a skirt ? |
| 21 | George said : ‘ I also had a Triumph Stag I wanted to do up and put on the road next year . |
| 22 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 23 | When the man had had his face washed ( by stella ) and been given a drink , and one of the barmen had called for a taxi , Mother got right up and got on the stage and told Gary she was ready for her song now . |
| 24 | We were 3-0 up and putting on the pressure to try to kill the tie . |
| 25 | Go down , catch the swing and go up on the lift , go left and collect the shield , go right and up when you reach the right-hand wall , go left and fly up the pipe , go right and fall down the gap , then go left and collect the weight and throw it onto the button to your right , go up on the lift , right , up and left on the lift , fly up past the spikes and collect a weight , fall down and go right under the spikes , throw the weight on the button , go up on the lift , up , go left when you can and fall down to collect the weight . |
| 26 | I sat up and turned on the bedside light to see the shadows in the room . |
| 27 | One night , she got up and turned on the light and looked at the sweet , bland face of Jesus , the Light of the World , in the picture over the mantelpiece . |
| 28 | ‘ Water is from many wells , pumped up and sterilised on the property . |
| 29 | ‘ Once , long ago , ’ began Tom , and Willie leaned forward to listen until finally he stood up and leaned on the arm of the armchair to get a closer look at the pictures . |
| 30 | As to the poetry , sir , I do not think there is much done in that direction though paper aplenty is screwed up and thrown on the floor . |