Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I stood up and looked in the mirror . |
| 32 | He gave up and looked inside the case . |
| 33 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 34 | Then get your mask up and get into the Accident Unit ! |
| 35 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 36 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 37 | Making up the slings of timber ready for Tiny Bennion 's crane to pick up and dump on the wharf . |
| 38 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 39 | Iris was already up and splashing in the bath . |
| 40 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 41 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 42 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 43 | She looked up and saw through the smoke — Mr Petrie ! |
| 44 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 45 | The other woman , whom she described as a man-hater , made her get up and come to the lavatories and once inside shouted vehemently , ‘ Do n't you ever do that again , if those men see you crying they 'll walk all over you ’ . |
| 46 | ‘ Caspar , ’ said Lee , jumping up and looking through the trees . |
| 47 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 48 | Oh , the neighbour rang me up and said by the way she 'll be a bit late |
| 49 | There 's little dawdling to sniff flowers now , just giddy , breakneck pop ; ‘ In Love For The Very First Time ’ is gushing and gossipy , while ‘ Be Your Baby ’ is '60s girl group sentiment wised up and flung into the backroom of the Camden Falcon . |
| 50 | A moment later he felt himself picked up and flung against the wall . |
| 51 | Or perhaps there was some other , unofficial entrance , and right now she was getting ready to give up and leave by the same way . |
| 52 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 53 | As soon as the show was over her dog would get up and run to the kitchen ready to receive his daily rations . |
| 54 | When I slept I would dream that one came , and drove on past without knowing I was here ; then I would wake up and run to the road looking for a tail light disappearing . |
| 55 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 56 | He stood up and crossed to the Cell . |
| 57 | Abruptly she stood up and crossed to the window . |
| 58 | He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder . |
| 59 | He gripped it with his hands , got his foot on to the latch , heaved up and rolled over the top . |
| 60 | I 'd sit out in my car , all made up and wait for the stage doorkeeper to come and fetch me . ’ |