Example sentences of "up and [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let the silence go on , and wondered about just getting up and leaving right then without one word , not one word of the torrent foaming in her guts . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind the rate of growth , these are not a fish to be fattened up and passed on quickly , living well in excess of ten years and hopefully being given the respect during this time that any animal deserves . |
| 3 | I think about how I could get dressed up and go out somewhere , for a couple of hours , and just leave it all , because I get so sick of it sometimes … |
| 4 | Go home , get a couple of hours ' sleep , clean up and get back here . |
| 5 | It must be remembered to breathe in ( using the special breathing technique ) when the arms or legs are up and to breathe out gently when they are down . |
| 6 | She lifted it up and saw that long ago the batteries had leaked and burnt the wood . |
| 7 | She 's got she 's gon na pick her mother up and come back home , bring her mother back home tomorrow with her . |
| 8 | Then he looked up and bit out thickly , ‘ The hell I will ! ’ |
| 9 | He had led an exciting life in boxing circles before he went away to the war and he did not consider himself to lack nerve , but the plan the little shifty-eyed character was setting out made Billy want to get up and leave right away . |
| 10 | It was n't just a sheer and hollow left-hander : it reared up and rolled over right in front of your eyes . |
| 11 | I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock . |
| 12 | I had straightened up and moved aside so that the sun no longer dazzled me and I could see Sweetman properly , and what I saw I did not like . |
| 13 | I curled up and kicked out wildly at their shins , but I was at their mercy now . |
| 14 | The man stumbled forward onto the bridge , then got up and trudged on again , wiping his dirtied hands against his thighs as he went and glancing up briefly , fearfully , as the big house loomed over him . |
| 15 | I have had in my mind recently the image of a great bridge , how the pillars rise up and sweep down again with an immense force and weight . |
| 16 | She got up and walked around nervously , fetching up at a cabinet with a heavy silver box on top . |
| 17 | Another rifleman had bartered some of his Red Cross parcel for a loaf of bread ; ‘ The conditions of living and surviving had made us all as cunning as foxes ’ , so this rifleman that night slept with it under his neck , but someone crept up and cut off both the ends . |
| 18 | When the manager refused it , she got up and ran back upstairs to the dealing floor . |
| 19 | She stood up and went slowly upstairs . |
| 20 | The sheep will have to be gathered up and brought down as soon as possible ! ’ |
| 21 | Wendy ran after her child but her spiked heels slowed her , so she gave up and came back home and made herself a cup of coffee and read the stories in the back of her magazine . |
| 22 | One night , I remember , I woke up and came down again at ten . |
| 23 | On this view , the original deposit is merely shuffled around , split up and shuffled around again . |
| 24 | I once saw a science fiction movie about time-travellers in the future ; towards the end of the film the whole story is speeded up and re-run in about two minutes . |
| 25 | After the defeat of 1918 the policies of Frederick , Bismarck and Wilhelm II were to be taken up and extended quite logically ; the search for identity , for colonial holdings , the logic of industrial expansion , the ‘ question ’ of the eastern marches would all be solved and resolved in the Endlösung . |
| 26 | An eleven-year-old boy who was decidedly large and round stood up and waddled briskly forward . |
| 27 | There 's Lawrence now , a left-hander , down to the rear and this one he turns away and it goes straight to short leg and erm , everybody claps up and sits there well , well fielded there by Morris at short leg . |
| 28 | I felt that we might be able to establish peace by other means until he had grown up and become more readily identifiable as top dog by Stan . |
| 29 | Anyway he woke up in the middle of the night , sat up and spewed up all over Sandra ! |
| 30 | This research can be set up and carried out very quickly by a competent research agency , and will cost ( 1992 prices ) some £1200 per group or £110–125 per individual interview . |