Example sentences of "up and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped up and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 2 | I got up and kissed her on the way up and went to meet the boys . |
| 3 | Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy . |
| 4 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 5 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 6 | Old Henry VII , father to the Great Killer , was a born miser and inveterate liar who would n't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the nose . |
| 7 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 8 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 9 | She arched against him , her hands searching desperately for his skin , and with a harsh groan he stood up and dragged her to her feet . |
| 10 | But hardly had the applause for the Collector died down when two hands reached up and dragged him down the stairs by his braces and into the crowd . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 12 | For answer Penry picked her up and tossed her into the bed , stripped off his dressing-gown and turned out the light . |
| 13 | She tore them up and tossed them into the bin . |
| 14 | She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago . |
| 15 | ‘ She got our backs up and treated us like schoolchildren , ’ said Davies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Instead you were given a medicine bottle , bought a stick of liquorice , cut this up and stuck it into the bottle . |
| 18 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 19 | Then , slowly , his right hand came up and peeled hers from his arm . |
| 20 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 21 | She helped the old woman up and led her across the room . |
| 22 | She held a warning finger up and wagged it in Fernando 's direction . |
| 23 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 24 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 25 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 26 | Charging pensioners and children for medical prescriptions picked that one up and dropped it like a hot potato and charging for hospital treatment and why so why not do a U-turn on on this one ? |
| 27 | He picked it up and dropped it in a bowl of fruit punch . |
| 28 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 29 | After calling Willie several times and getting no response , he eventually gave up and tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 30 | She jumped up and punched him in the kidneys before landing a fist on the point of his chin . |