Example sentences of "[vb past] up and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A billowing wave of darkness rose up and sucked her to its depths , and she sank to the floor . |
| 3 | Angel , on a faster pony and using his whip , had nearly caught her up when Luke thundered up and rode him off . |
| 4 | Modest Derek would only say : ‘ I saw Luke caught up and grabbed him — that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 6 | And we went round this estate ca n't remember where it was and erm thought knock on the doors and se , ask people had seen it and then later in the day this woman phoned up and said she saw a couple of kids walk down the road with it and sort of ca , called them over and said oh I heard that his , his . |
| 7 | that , that way , he must of said something because Christopher phoned up and said I 'm coming down tomorrow |
| 8 | Then , in September 1990 , the unbelievable occurred : Wendy woke up and knew she was pregnant . |
| 9 | And there was something about it that froze the blood , even before he woke up and knew it was real . |
| 10 | Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’ |
| 11 | During the night Ben suddenly woke up and remembering her , he hurriedly dressed and ran back to the wharf and opened the hatch . |
| 12 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 13 | She 'd gone to visit her parents in Chalatenango and nine armed men in a jeep just drove up and shot her right in front of her parents . |
| 14 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 15 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |
| 16 | anything about coming , and yet Jenny came up and told me that she was coming on Friday , er before I got that letter , got that letter the next day |
| 17 | Cos somebody came up and told me which is even more rude . |
| 18 | Matt was peeing in the river when one of the sparks came up and told him it was n't a good idea . |
| 19 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 20 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 21 | No , she said that she came up and asked you if you wan na go out with Emma |
| 22 | I was talking to Mike McFarlane when Allan came up and interrupted us and spoke to Mac , looking me over but not saying anything to me . |
| 23 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 24 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 25 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 26 | And if she came up and thought I had n't washed properly she would push my head under the water and hold it there . |
| 27 | A waiter came up and made him put it on again . |
| 28 | The return to speech and motion had cost Ariel so much that when Kit had gone , she choked and vomited from the pit of her belly until green bile came up and burned her . |
| 29 | Er , no what happened , my sister came up and brought her two kids in the afternoon |
| 30 | She came up and kissed him . |