Example sentences of "up [conj] [vb past] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped up and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 2 | I got up and kissed her on the way up and went to meet the boys . |
| 3 | The tall heavy , dark-haired with thick brows too close together , stood up and balanced himself on the balls of his feet . |
| 4 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 5 | Old Henry VII , father to the Great Killer , was a born miser and inveterate liar who would n't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the nose . |
| 6 | After calling Willie several times and getting no response , he eventually gave up and tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 7 | They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog . |
| 8 | The fist came up and caught him on the side of the head and Jack went down , seeing little sparkling stars . |
| 9 | Turning from the window , Polly picked her bag up and opened it on the desk . |
| 10 | She scooped them up and dumped them on the table . |