Example sentences of "up and [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 2 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 3 | There 's little dawdling to sniff flowers now , just giddy , breakneck pop ; ‘ In Love For The Very First Time ’ is gushing and gossipy , while ‘ Be Your Baby ’ is '60s girl group sentiment wised up and flung into the backroom of the Camden Falcon . |
| 4 | A moment later he felt himself picked up and flung against the wall . |
| 5 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 6 | When I slept I would dream that one came , and drove on past without knowing I was here ; then I would wake up and run to the road looking for a tail light disappearing . |
| 7 | As soon as the show was over her dog would get up and run to the kitchen ready to receive his daily rations . |
| 8 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 9 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours while the gang made their getaway . |
| 10 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours to stop the family raising the alarm while the thugs made their getaway . |
| 11 | Richard got up and balanced on the ball of one foot as if he had been seized by an attack of cramp . |
| 12 | Benstede got up and crossed to the bed in the far comer . |
| 13 | Merrill got up and crossed to the stationery cupboard . |
| 14 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
| 15 | This sub system was set up and developed by the team who have retained responsibility for writing and testing programs for any new reporting requirement . |
| 16 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 17 | But somehow the little orphan survived the ordeal , as she also later survived the farce of being crated up and flown to the Mara game reserve when still only six months old , to be shown to the Pope . |
| 18 | As a result various sites of former industrial activities have been taken over , cleaned up and displayed to the public in order to show what a real industrial area was never like . |
| 19 | An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies . |
| 20 | Victim support services for the victims of all crimes are now being set up and funded by the Home Office . |
| 21 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 22 | Merymose stood up and made for the door . |
| 23 | Claudia stood up and made for the door . |
| 24 | ‘ Bill and I were left on stage gaping as they all got up and made for the exits . |
| 25 | There had been a path there once but it had been ploughed up and incorporated into the field long ago . |
| 26 | One of the tentacles began to move up and pushed through the hole . |
| 27 | However , the Front was increasingly built up and reinforced by the North via the route which became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail . |
| 28 | Mrs Sweet stood up and stripped off the housecoat . |
| 29 | She looked like a Cossack in jackboot-black sea boots , the skirt of her long dress looped up and tucked into the strap of a gold lamé handbag , the top half of her padded out by a fur-hooded anorak . |
| 30 | For many this was the highlight of the day , once all had settled the singing would begin and this time all with full voice , songs like " One man went to mow " , " Ten green bottles " and " I 'm happy when I 'm hiking " would be taken up and echoed along the route , and arriving back in Halling we would be encouraged into one mighty effort to let all at home know that we were back , safe if somewhat tired , overfed and happy . |