Example sentences of "up and [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been decided in July 1944 that the Cabinet Committee on post-War Civil Aviation should be wound up and replaced by a Minister responsible specifically for this area of policy . |
| 2 | Harald and Carl stood up and looked through a window . |
| 3 | Molly pointed to the bright bunch on the scrubbed table and Giovanna gathered them up and strode to a hook on the dresser where they dangled with all their labels . |
| 4 | Before she had time even to gasp , it flew back up and disappeared into a hole above the water . |
| 5 | Now this is the time when you must watch them , because it can take from two to two days , two hours from two , two hours to two days to regain control of the brain , depending on the person and if it 's , happens outside and they want to get away , stress the fact you get up and run under a bus and they do n't mean to obviously |
| 6 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 7 | Being a good and persuasive talker is a must for this work as you may have to get up and speak at a sales conference or at an agency presentation . |
| 8 | Roll the fillets up and secure with a cocktail stick . |
| 9 | POLICE searched a hospital yesterday after an ex-patient was tied up and strangled with a scarf . |
| 10 | He pulled up and leant against a tree . |
| 11 | But had they — or someone else — not come in , Price 's would have been sold to a foreign buyer ( an option Shell considered ) , broken up and merged with a rival , or worse , have disappeared altogether , taking 160 years of manufacturing history with it . |
| 12 | This is the impact that a speaker has when they stand up and speak to a group of people . |
| 13 | Each year they asked all the people to do little sketches , and as my sister and I spoke French , we thought it might be quite fun to do a kind of singing and dancing cabaret act — it was quite risqué at the time — I was fourteen — and in fact we were spotted by a talent scout who wanted us to come up and audition for a show in a London night club . |
| 14 | Maybe you 'll have to wait up and pay for a cab to bring them home . |
| 15 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 16 | I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker . |
| 17 | He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor . |
| 18 | a jury how he and his girlfriend were kidnapped , tied up and pushed down a hill in a burning car . |
| 19 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 20 | The group to jump , known as a stick , hooked up and shuffled in a line to exit from the side door . |
| 21 | Mick 's head disappeared from the entrance to the trench as I sat up and listened to a shell burst close by . |
| 22 | Her father came up and listened for a while and then said that he thought it was all marvellous but he did n't understand a word of it . |
| 23 | Reluctantly she picked it up and listened for a moment . |
| 24 | When Parliament returned , the Opposition would take the matter up and proceed to a vote of censure . |
| 25 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 26 | He proved that all 17,000 verses could be minutely inscribed on a piece of parchment 10.8 in by 8.4 in , which could then be folded up and placed in a walnut shell . |
| 27 | But her assessment of my ability to stand up and shout in a crisis is pretty much a front . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'll not sell up and go into a Home , that 's for sure , ’ said his Dad . |
| 29 | At a recent Thames rodeo the ladies had to provide their own rescues in a heat as the rescue boats had packed up and gone for a brawl ! |
| 30 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |