Example sentences of "and [verb] up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I felt ill , and got up to open the door . |
| 2 | He moved again , and gladly she leaned over and pressed the bell on the wall beside the cot and got up to get the breast tray . |
| 3 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 4 | A new wave of black British talent is now threatening to do the same — breaking out of a burgeoning club circuit and gearing up to colonise the nation 's TV sets |
| 5 | Lift up the ball valve arm as high as it will go , and tie up to prevent the cistern refilling . |
| 6 | It should be noted in passing that the precedent for this — the credit union movement 's international mutual insurance fund , which insures only against death ( paying off loans , and paying up to double a union member 's savings ) at no added cost to borrower or saver — is now one of the biggest in the world . |
| 7 | Up the Empire ! ’ to a group of communist students from the UK gathered at the bar of his hotel , promises to do something about the ‘ blooming awful ’ state of Soviet plumbing and ends up making a deal with Stalin with the insouciance of George Formby addressing himself to Hitler . |
| 8 | This will occur once a pidgin-speaking community is sufficiently settled for children to be born , and to grow up hearing the pidgin spoken all around them . |
| 9 | Up above , the Falcons know the plan ; jump ; freefall and link up to make a circle . |
| 10 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |
| 11 | A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem . |
| 12 | One of the slowest vehicles on the road , and coming up beind the world 's fastest production car the Jaguar XJ220 , which has a top speed of 217mph , was making its debut in Banbury . |
| 13 | Ingrid watched in amazement as the eggs disappeared as if they were being sucked into quicksand , and looked up to see every man 's eyes riveted upon Ilse 's gaping crack . |
| 14 | As he clambered over the rocks , parting the scrub and the brambles to peer into crevices , he heard a droning throb overhead and looked up to see a helicopter . |
| 15 | He stopped in front of the two men , fingered the white bandage around his forehead , and looked up to scan the crowd anxiously . |
| 16 | ‘ Dinner will be ready in an hour , ’ she informed him , and went up to run a bath . |
| 17 | He laughed , ahead of her , and reached up to find the button . |
| 18 | On a visit to England , Cameron 's Dad met Minerva Beaton at a dinner party arranged by Alexia and wound up marrying the cellist . |
| 19 | ‘ I deliberately cut myself off from racing as much as possible while my injuries healed , and ended up managing a village pub near Lambourn . ’ |
| 20 | A DAD took his family out shopping — and ended up catching a jewel thief . |
| 21 | But whilst Mackenzie carried on and ended up editing the Sun , Sutton began to question what he was doing . |
| 22 | And then I sold that and ended up getting a Strat . |
| 23 | They had to go away to be analysed , and I went back to court and ended up getting a £150 fine or seven days in prison — I paid the fine . |
| 24 | One night I went into a petrol station to buy Pot Noodles and ended up robbing the place . |
| 25 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have had patients who literally just laughed out loud and ended up cracking a rib . |
| 27 | She 'd come to Nepal with a back-pack three years earlier and ended up marrying the US embassy dentist . |
| 28 | They fell foul , on the other hand , of Simon de Mont fort , who was sent to the south-west of France by King Henry III in 1248 to curb the unruliness there and ended up assaulting the Viscount of Soule in his castle in Mauléon . |
| 29 | Having got to the outskirts of Bletchley it turned into a housing estate and ended up hitting the gates of Wellsmead School . |
| 30 | While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place . |