Example sentences of "up and [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are not ! ’ she protested , locking her wrists together when her hands seemed about to flutter up and cover those very eyes from his probing gaze . |
| 2 | Lydia flew back to the window , flung it up and said some further things into the darkness of the middle of the night . |
| 3 | The prime question is whether the gains in efficiency from having a more competitive financial system that involves a degree of consumer protection are outweighed by the costs of setting up and maintaining that regulatory system . |
| 4 | Diana could never go to bed and leave a mess behind , however late ; she would always tidy up and wash any dirty dishes . |
| 5 | If I get fed up and take another wee day off , maybe a Sunday or something like that . |
| 6 | Arrange sturdy furniture to help your child pull himself up and take those first steps . |
| 7 | We would n't look very smart if we had simply given up and allowed some precious Galapagos species to become extinct , by letting the introduced animals get out of control . ’ |
| 8 | Slowly I got up and drew some long breaths . |
| 9 | But the point is , if you tell them you 're leaving , why do n't they come and board the windows up and save all this money ? |
| 10 | Oh baby , if I were n't so trammelled , would I ever like to rev up and give this little sweetheart one cosmic klop on the jaw . |
| 11 | We have worked our way directly to a fair , simple and durable solution while Labour has wandered around the highways and byways throwing up and discarding enough nutty ideas to revive the Monty Python show . |
| 12 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |