Example sentences of "up and [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up and sprinted the 150 yards or so . |
| 2 | Billy looked gloomy and his friend got up and collected the empty mugs . |
| 3 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 4 | ‘ But you must put your feet up and let the younger ones get on with being busy for a change . |
| 5 | Then I got up and took the two rugs by their corners and dragged them outside the door . |
| 6 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 7 | Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes . |
| 8 | Most modern , written , constitutions seek not merely to set up and define the main organs of the state and to distribute public power amongst them , but also to state a range of constitutional guarantees for the subject , frequently limiting the power of organs of the state to this extent . |
| 9 | This is a time when entertainers should shut up and allow the black leaders of the community to take a stand and make a change . |
| 10 | Tom picked him up and watched the two boys disappear round the corner . |
| 11 | Yes , he seems to pop up and get the important goals when they 're needed and you know , none was more important than today really . |
| 12 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 13 | The role of rhetoric becomes crucial here — it serves to keep the flow of foreign funds from drying up and to disguise the endemic problems of implementation of these projects . |
| 14 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 15 | And yet , when she finally , despairingly , screwed herself up and loosed the small words into the drawing room air , her mother said yes . |