Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped up and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 2 | I got up and kissed her on the way up and went to meet the boys . |
| 3 | Mrs Mrs rang me up and ask me about the one |
| 4 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 5 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 6 | Take about three bananas , and cut them up and arrange them on a plate in four pieces to look like a monster . |
| 7 | Old people , in old people 's homes , sometimes regress to this stage , and they also can be observed to play with faeces and to wrap them up and present them as a gift . |
| 8 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 9 | Old Henry VII , father to the Great Killer , was a born miser and inveterate liar who would n't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the nose . |
| 10 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 11 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 12 | But hardly had the applause for the Collector died down when two hands reached up and dragged him down the stairs by his braces and into the crowd . |
| 13 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 15 | And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap . |
| 16 | For answer Penry picked her up and tossed her into the bed , stripped off his dressing-gown and turned out the light . |
| 17 | She tore them up and tossed them into the bin . |
| 18 | She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago . |
| 19 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |
| 20 | Instead you were given a medicine bottle , bought a stick of liquorice , cut this up and stuck it into the bottle . |
| 21 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 22 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 23 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 24 | Even with concussion she had struggled up and hit him with a frying pan . |
| 25 | And I have cleaned round him , but you know , as quick as I pick them up and throw them in the corner , he gets them out again . |
| 26 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 27 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 28 | Malcolm just used to screw them up and chuck them in the bin . |
| 29 | She helped the old woman up and led her across the room . |
| 30 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |