Example sentences of "[vb past] up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minute after I got into the water a large woman in an orange bathing cap swam up and asked if I was a newspaper correspondent . |
| 2 | She went to the reception and a smiling woman in a white blouse and neat grey skirt rose up and asked if she could help her . |
| 3 | A great , white scream rose up and filled Helen 's mind . |
| 4 | The knights were greatly offended at this foul sight , insomuch that they rose up and left the chamber . |
| 5 | The tumbling pigeons rose up and tumbled down , their white wings bright in the sunlight . |
| 6 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 7 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 8 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 9 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 10 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 11 | Although the examiner appointed by the court may submit a report which accompanies the deposition , this is merely intended to give him the opportunity of recording facts , including incidents during the examination ( for example , that the witnesses fainted or rose up and tried to assault cross-examining counsel ) ; the examiner can not indicate his opinion as to the credibility of the witness or his own impressions of the witness 's demeanour . |
| 12 | The hairs on the back of Thérèse 's neck rose up and shouted Danger . |
| 13 | A billowing wave of darkness rose up and sucked her to its depths , and she sank to the floor . |
| 14 | Franco made clear what those choices were in a " National Programme for Resurgence " which he personally drew up and passed to his ministers for action in October 1939 . |
| 15 | The wheel dates from the 1955 Campaign for the Congress of the People which drew up and adopted the Freedom Charter . |
| 16 | Then Robert Topping , the Conservative Chief Agent , drew up and presented to Chamberlain a memorandum saying that ‘ from practically all quarters ’ he heard the view that the leader ought to go . |
| 17 | I drew up and pushed my head out of the window . |
| 18 | An anxious young face disappeared from the window as their car drew up and parked under the dripping trees , but it was the Brigadier himself who appeared at the door to meet them . |
| 19 | The doctor drew up and parked beside her and everyone got out . |
| 20 | The working groups produced their reports in 1989 , and on the basis of them , the Secretary of State drew up and published programmes of study and attainment targets in all four subjects . |
| 21 | I 've got nothing other , I do n't know whether anybody 's aware of what went on last Wednesday and probably that , I mean there could have been there was a , sort of a , a cable that , a mains cable that heated up and started smoking and er , we had to deal with that . |
| 22 | Placing the Optima beside the bed , that night Douglas 's own watch misted up and stopped ! |
| 23 | The big firms swelled up and joined up and spent their money on rubber plants for the office and new offices for the rubber plants — and , most of all , on themselves . |
| 24 | He knelt up and leaned towards Lucien . |
| 25 | She knelt up and peered through the tiny porthole . |
| 26 | When we began , we therefore had six members helping lead the open youth club ; one who headed up and organised a coffee bar which aims to be open whenever the centre is open ; others who were involved in the drama ; keep fit ; OAP 's and other groups . |
| 27 | Angel , on a faster pony and using his whip , had nearly caught her up when Luke thundered up and rode him off . |
| 28 | The British Midland ATP aircraft carrying fifty nine passengers iced up and plunged thirty five hundred feet from the sky above Cowley last year.The pilot eventually regained control , but the official report into the incident concludes that the airline 's advice NOT to apply full power to get out of such a dive , was inappropriate . |
| 29 | Jotan caught up and rode alongside . |
| 30 | She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away . |