Example sentences of "up and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not pretty to watch , with the ball often being held up and played back to Cann , but it was effective , and Farnham were ready to strike when their own chance came along . |
| 2 | A minute , two minutes passed ; then I sat up and swung out of bed . |
| 3 | And it used to all add up and go in on Friday , after I 'd got , got everything sorted out , go in on Friday , and get all this bumf and go to a desk , my desk , and I 'd put it down , get a bin , right , a cup of coffee , loosen your tie and start wading through it . |
| 4 | Slowly Jack stood up and looked down at Ho . |
| 5 | Drink up and get back to bed . ’ |
| 6 | To summarize , the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes . |
| 7 | By the time of the riots a quarter of all houses on the estate were boarded up and burned out by infant petrol bombers . |
| 8 | Sometimes , when he did , he wondered whether , however daunting the operation seemed , he would sell up and move back to London . |
| 9 | Afterwards the gods ' puris were torn up and shared out as prasād . |
| 10 | Do n't touch it — no stamina — Old Andrew sold up and ran out to Gloucestershire as soon as there was a spot of bother here . " |
| 11 | the starting up and slowing down of things . |
| 12 | She went and picked our Kia up and went back to Bill 's . |
| 13 | Dr Sasaki got up and went back to work . |
| 14 | I have nothing against them dressing up and riding around on horses but I do n't like the thought of anything being hunted down , man or beast . |
| 15 | England 's management turned white when scrum-half Garth Wright drove his pack on the offensive , crushing England on a five metre scrum with Richter picking up and plonking down without hindrance . |
| 16 | any motor vehicle standing on a part of a road specially set aside for the parking of vehicles , or as a stand for hackney carriages , or as a stand for public service vehicles , or as a place at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers where compliance with this regulation would conflict with the provisions of any order , regulations or byelaws governing the use of such part of a road for that purpose ; |
| 17 | I voiced my resentment openly , but my fatigue was confided only to my diary and to those of my friends who already knew that I was in the habit of getting up and wandering around at night . |
| 18 | You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal . |
| 19 | Finally he gave up and clambered out of bed . |
| 20 | Charlotte was not a commodity to be picked up and put down at will , and so he would find . |
| 21 | For two or three hundred years British pastures were widely being ploughed up and put down to grain to feed a fast-growing human population . |
| 22 | The otter either heard me or got my scent , because it suddenly looked up , then stood up and moved out of sight round the other side of the rock . |
| 23 | From here it 's a doddle to sort out train times and connections — it 's probably cheaper than trying to ring up and get through to BR 's phone lines and definitely easier to use than wading through the paper version . |
| 24 | He went there to Dalby Forest one day in the afternoon loaded them all up and set off for Wales . |
| 25 | With the increased number of workmen living in the expanding town of Bletchley , a Bletchley workman 's train was put on and this picked up and set down at Loughton . |
| 26 | She got up and smiled down at Edward . |