Example sentences of "up and [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Greek oil tanker broke up and spilled 12,000 tonnes of light crude oil off the west coast of Australia on 21 July , creating what was described as the country 's worst such environmental disaster . |
| 2 | I was glad when Sunday morning arrived , I woke up and saw two suitcases bulging on my bedroom floor . |
| 3 | Today , however , when she glanced up and saw two men high above her on a jig smiling and nudging each other , she simply fled back to the sanctuary of her office . |
| 4 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 5 | Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians . ’ |
| 6 | If you stand up and walk ten steps |
| 7 | In Deir Yassin they rounded up and butchered 250 people . |
| 8 | All the little man had to do was stand up and take one pace forward , parting the branches . |
| 9 | Just before midnight she got up and swallowed two aspirins with some water which she hoped would calm her down . |
| 10 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 11 | I was a chargehand and then I just drifted into being a Redcoat , and getting up and doing five minutes on stage and enjoying it . |
| 12 | The screen lit up and showed two pennants crudely drawn on the acetate , one yellow and the other red . |
| 13 | Once the stove was up and running 9.5 minutes . |
| 14 | Take it from me ; the average network station will not be up and running five minutes after you 've taken it out of the box . |
| 15 | Trailing overnight leader Sainz by 25 seconds at the start of the day , the British champion steadily whittled away the deficit and opened a 12-second lead on the penultimate stage , before easing up and finishing two seconds ahead of the Spaniard . |
| 16 | In July 1337 , after a series of negotiations with the wool merchants , the king obtained an agreement under which a select group of wealthy merchants would be empowered to buy up and export 30,000 sacks of wool . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , she got up and poured two mugs of coffee and sipped hers . |
| 18 | To set up and run four units for the production of Oral Rehydration Salt ( ORS ) packets , based on the World Health Organisation recipe described in Chapter 1 . |