Example sentences of "up and [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George grew bored and picked fern leaves , stripping them , only leaving the stem , then he stood up and walked back the way they had come . |
| 2 | He got up and ran down the rock . |
| 3 | It was too hot on the roof so she got up and slithered down the ivy into the dark , damp place at the side of the boathouse and went indoors . |
| 4 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 5 | Agnes did not make the mistake now of asking her customer how much he intended to spend on the acid drops ; she reached up and took down the jar and , tilting it , tipped some acid drops into the scale ; then , putting the glass lid back onto the jar , she returned the whole to the shelf before once again blowing into a small paper bag and depositing the sweets inside . |
| 6 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 7 | Joe stood up and came down the table towards Harriet Shakespeare . |
| 8 | Emyr has built it all up and put back the roof . |
| 9 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 10 | However , the telephone was certainly ringing , and he got up and picked up the receiver . |
| 11 | She got up and picked up the frame and brought it over to Meredith . |
| 12 | There was a pause while Nicole paid the bill , putting it on her husband 's gold credit card , then she straightened up and picked up the bag . |
| 13 | Jane Pargeter stood up and switched on the standard lamp beside her chair , standing with her arms akimbo , self-contained yet vulnerable . |
| 14 | Rachaela sat up and switched on the light . |
| 15 | Matilda jumped up and switched off the telly . |
| 16 | He got up and wandered back the way we 'd come . |