Example sentences of "[vb past] up [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the two Highlanders stood , he sauntered up and touched each gently on the chest . |
| 2 | We got off and took cover for a while , then came up and got another bus to Fulham . |
| 3 | And then I worked in an hotel in the Tyrol as soon as the tourist industry opened up and saved some money to put with Grandfather 's . |
| 4 | He straightened up and pulled another chair closer , sitting opposite her in an attitude of relaxed attention . |
| 5 | I got up and had another little walk around , finishing up just over the road from Buckingham Palace . |
| 6 | He got up and poured more drinks from the trolley in a corner of the room , placing one in front of her . |
| 7 | Slowly I got up and drew some long breaths . |
| 8 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 9 | Very minor on the scale of things but I 've had a car stolen , erm great inconvenience , ca n't believe its going to happen to you , did n't do any thing to have caused this , locked up and took all the precautions , and yet it still happened and some one , some where out there has my car . |
| 10 | They were obviously very annoyed and when another Whitley flew straight over Brussels ( Averre , I believe it was ) they all went up and forced this aircraft down . |
| 11 | I mean she went up and got that out of her bank for us to go out with Monday because we had no money . |
| 12 | When the sun moved round she too had moved to the doorstep , her sleeves rolled up and concentrating half on the book and half on the remembered scene until her mother had arrived , walking up the street where they had both walked so many times before . |
| 13 | Tadpoles grew up and became more frogs . |
| 14 | ‘ I looked up and saw this person — I did n't think of it as me . |
| 15 | Embarrassed by Nonconformists who quoted his earlier writings , in which he had urged religious toleration , he bought up and burned all the copies of The Liberty of Prophesying . |
| 16 | ‘ You gave up that pipe several weeks ago . |
| 17 | Now she stood up and pushed both hands into the pockets of her jeans . |
| 18 | He sat up and drank some water . |