Example sentences of "up and [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 2 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 3 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 4 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 5 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 6 | Conversely , flame-coloured harridans that looked as if only Agent Orange could stop them curled up and died of aristocratic pique at the advancing hordes of dandelions . |
| 7 | Although projects for the reform of the courts were being drawn up and had in some cases been completed , " the date of their publication can not yet be predicted with any certainty " . |
| 8 | Being bundled up and escorted from old peoples home to movie premiere , from infant school to racecourse , from hospital to Cup final . |
| 9 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 10 | She had intensive physiotherapy treatment every day on a one-to-one basis , and gradually recovered her balance , so that she could stand up and walk with some help . |
| 11 | Harris asked the Ambassador whether he had received any letters from Amnesty members concerning Guatemalan street children ( who are routinely rounded up and beaten by that country 's security forces ) . |
| 12 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 13 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 14 | It is therefore unwise to allow grass to grow up and mature in late summer . |
| 15 | The experimenter instructed each child to pick up and talk about one toy and then applied a mild ‘ punishment ’ if he or she chose the more attractive of the pair . |
| 16 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 17 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | As the son of noble parents , Rodrigo was brought up and trained in knightly pursuits at the court of Prince Sancho , eldest son of King Ferdinand of Castile and Leon . |
| 19 | A man jumped up and ran after Black Dog . |
| 20 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 21 | Crows acrobated above a dead elm tree , ‘ The crow will tumble up and down/ at first sign of spring/ and in old trees around the town/brush winter from its wing . ’ |
| 22 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 23 | I then got up and went into another room , where I found the father Delavaud , still clothed , and lying on the bed , dead . |
| 24 | The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption . |
| 25 | Starting at the airman 's feet he moved up and raved at each disaster until he came to his head . |
| 26 | Plateosaurus was a well-known herbivore , occasionally rearing up and sprinting in short bursts on its hind legs , its momentum aided by its long tail . |
| 27 | Over the years , Midland has helped thousands of businesses to start up and grow into thriving enterprises . |
| 28 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 29 | The simple task devised by Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) was subsequently taken up and modified by other investigations . |
| 30 | The local technical university is a useful source ; so is the Penang Skills Development Centre , set up and financed by local multinationals . |