Example sentences of "up and [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 2 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 3 | Other guests now rose to leave and the two English envoys got up and began to move amongst the different groups . |
| 4 | He stood up and began prowling around the room , touching objects , focusing his attention on anything but her . |
| 5 | When , immediately afterwards , he jumped up and began to rush round the room in a strange wild dance , we all stared at him in great surprise . |
| 6 | She got up and began walking round the kitchen , collecting a dirty cup here , a saucer there , putting them in the sink . |
| 7 | Claire stood up and began walking around the room , idly picking up one of the many calculators lying around , her hand trailing over the volumes of books on the shelves . |
| 8 | He stood up and began to run along the deck . |
| 9 | And she got up and began to run across the room to her mother . |
| 10 | Then followed the 4500 , the first ribbing attachment — which worked on some days and not on others ( on the latter I would give up and stop knitting for the day ! ) . |
| 11 | He got up and went to stand by the tall , ornate fireplace where a fire had now been lit for the cooler evening to come . |
| 12 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 13 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 14 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 15 | He stood up and seemed to roll on the balls of his feet . |
| 16 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 17 | He gets up and begins to walk around the room . |
| 18 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 19 | Grimma propped it up and tried to concentrate above the noise . |
| 20 | He got up and started to walk around the room . |
| 21 | Eventually the two parties meet up and commence searching inside the ancient craft . |