Example sentences of "and [verb] up [verb] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 |
| 4 | Lift up the ball valve arm as high as it will go , and tie up to prevent the cistern refilling . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He stopped in front of the two men , fingered the white bandage around his forehead , and looked up to scan the crowd anxiously . |
| 8 | He laughed , ahead of her , and reached up to find the button . |
| 9 | On a visit to England , Cameron 's Dad met Minerva Beaton at a dinner party arranged by Alexia and wound up marrying the cellist . |
| 10 | But whilst Mackenzie carried on and ended up editing the Sun , Sutton began to question what he was doing . |
| 11 | One night I went into a petrol station to buy Pot Noodles and ended up robbing the place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place . |
| 14 | TEENAGER Russell Hoult arrived as a spectator — and ended up winning the man of the match award . |