Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 2 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 3 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 4 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 5 | The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption . |
| 6 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 7 | The tank has been up and running for eight months : pH is 7.8 , with 15°GH and 12°KH . |
| 8 | I have a 48″ × 17″ × 16″ aquarium which has been up and running for six months . |
| 9 | It has been up and running for 18 months and was beta tested last summer by Japanese engineers from NEC Corp that built an I-Tron interface to it . |
| 10 | Sun , which claims an installed base of some 2,000 machines in Ireland , has had an operation up and running for three years . |
| 11 | It is the only way the women of West Belfast are able to actually able to take on further education and if you ca n't stand up and fight for that then West Belfast is not working . |
| 12 | said I 've no qualms about 'em , and yet he 's , somebody that votes for bloody Green Party , eh , he 's just been up and voted for Green Party , I said I 'd of stopped at home if I was you |
| 13 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 14 | A JUDGE apologised yesterday to a shoplifter who was locked up and forgotten for nine months . |