Example sentences of "he [vb past] up and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lay there silently , then he got up and left the room , leaving me lying there in an agony of frustration and guilt , furious with myself for having given way , yet curiously glad I had finally done so . |
| 2 | Then , gulping down the remains of his cup of tea , he got up and left the table . |
| 3 | He got up and put the light on , shivering . |
| 4 | He got up and opened the window even wider for more air . |
| 5 | He got up and opened the door . |
| 6 | There was an explosion not too far away and as he got up and opened the door to the rear yard , the rattle of small arms fire . |
| 7 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 8 | He had bent down , his hand among the grasses but as she spoke he straightened up and thrust a grubby fist into his pocket . |
| 9 | She went to the edge of the roof and shouted across the village at the unnamed thief that for this he 'd be struck with paralysis ; that he 'd be smitten with cholera and die : that unless he owned up and returned the cockerel , the gods would punish his family with poverty and starvation for ever . |
| 10 | The thought of it scared them so much they turned all the lights out and went straight upstairs without even taking a candle in case he came up and saw the light under their door . |
| 11 | He glanced up and found the cool blue eyes on him . |
| 12 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 13 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 14 | He went up and got a bottle of Sasperella he said to me there was two bottles left . |
| 15 | And er he went up and examined the wife and he come down stairs and he said to me Are you the husband ? |
| 16 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 17 | He looked up and managed a somewhat wavering smile . |
| 18 | He looked up and saw a plane following him down ; it too had a battered wing-tip . |
| 19 | He looked up and saw a wooden stave falling towards his head . |
| 20 | He looked up and saw the vicar carrying a book that looked more like an illustrated part work from W. H. Smith 's than Holy Writ . |
| 21 | When he looked up and saw the charging buffalo , Joseph raised his Winchester in an instinctive reflex action and dropped to his knees . |
| 22 | Then he looked up and saw the great rat . |
| 23 | He looked up and saw the glasses . |
| 24 | He would n't miss her right away , and even if he looked up and saw the empty stool he 'd probably assume she was inside the hut . |
| 25 | From time to time , instinctively , he looked up and sniffed the wind , but his caution was half-hearted . |
| 26 | With a grunt , he sat up and tucked the letter away . |
| 27 | He sat up and left the bed upon which she had given herself so frequently since their wedding day . |
| 28 | He sat up and lifted the radio so that it was close to his ear . |
| 29 | He sat up and took a piece of mud-coloured rag out of his pocket and wiped his face . |
| 30 | Suddenly he sat up and switched the bedside light on . |