Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He kept waking up and telling me silly things … |
| 2 | What seemed a daunting quantity of hard male muscle clenched into action as he sat up and swung his long legs to the ground . |
| 3 | The skinhead looked up and noticed his new adversary coming to the rescue of the hapless businessman , who was feebly cringing on the ground . |
| 4 | it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just |
| 5 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 6 | At last when the man 's legs were freed and he too was carried out to the waiting ambulance , Rachel stood up and flexed her cramped muscles . |
| 7 | Mrs Beavis glanced up and saw her new lady lodger and Sergeant Joe looking over the banisters . |
| 8 | There had been a further recent development ; only a couple of days ago Herr Hamnett 's brother , another agreeable young gentleman , had turned up and collected his entire belongings . |
| 9 | Was Japan recognizing herself as one country among many , balancing domestic priorities and concerns against the demands of the broader international order , opening up and adjusting her internal arrangements to effect a more cosmopolitan perspective ? |
| 10 | Newman moved her hand , stood up and pressed his own hand on her shoulder to keep her seated . |
| 11 | Correctionalist criminologists , of all varieties , join all the other agents of social control that capitalism utilises to patch itself up and keep its exploitative machinations justified and operational . |
| 12 | ( And failure to encourage infants to grow up and experience their own separateness and uniqueness is as much a betrayal of the concept of self as is the abandonment of support and pleasure in their developing maturity . ) |
| 13 | splits up and goes its separate ways we 're not getting ten gallons a minute through that pipe or through that or |
| 14 | The congregation stood up and raised their open palms to their ears . |
| 15 | What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama and make-believe , but it appears that his family , once prosperous but fallen on hard times in Lear 's early years , sold up and went their separate ways . |
| 16 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 17 | Er , no what happened , my sister came up and brought her two kids in the afternoon |
| 18 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 19 | She stood up and took her empty plate into the galley . |
| 20 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 21 | The next day , all nine of us were lined up and given our civilian clothes ; we were to take a train to Paris that evening . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better , ’ said Joe , who thought it wiser to help her get up and fight her hard luck than to harp on it . |
| 23 | ‘ Just shut up and pass me that apple . ’ |
| 24 | In the end he got up and made himself some coffee , then watched the early morning skies above Manhattan as he recalled the past . |
| 25 | He looked up and met her startled eyes . |
| 26 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 27 | We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards . |
| 28 | ‘ Not much I can say to that , is there ? ’ she managed bravely , wishing desperately that he would straighten up and go his merry way . |
| 29 | ‘ Get up and make us some tea . |
| 30 | A toddler I know refers to me as ‘ English aunt ’ — even if he does mix it up and call my male friend ‘ foreign aunt ’ too . |