Example sentences of "up and [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's a river we can find a place to hole up and get some rest . |
| 2 | I must clean myself up and get some lunch — I have a meeting on grading with various people up the road in the Civil Service Commission at quarter past two … |
| 3 | this time we were able to stand at a distance from it all and weigh it up and write better songs . |
| 4 | The use of internal coordinates combined with helicoidal parameters which position each nucleotide within a nucleic acid fragment , reduce the number of variables representing the molecule and thus speed up and facilitate conformational searches . |
| 5 | Article 7 appears to give the right to consumer groups or organisations to take action against organisations of suppliers or sellers who draw up and use standard terms and conditions which contain unfair terms . |
| 6 | What , you 're going to get two four bedroomed houses and two double garages up and retain some trees in that bit ? |
| 7 | If you stand up and walk ten steps |
| 8 | So , I think possibly a little more thought in the actual , I think the actual shape of the girl there , the way she 's actually sitting is fine , but er it , it looks as if she 's been propped up with , you know , you better put this stool under your foot to hold that up and put this crutch under your arm to hold that up and |
| 9 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 10 | Go out and train , build yourselves up and become super rugby players ’ . |
| 11 | Such waves pile water up and initiate longshore currents . |
| 12 | You measure those up and make little templates to scale to represent them . |
| 13 | All the little man had to do was stand up and take one pace forward , parting the branches . |
| 14 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 15 | ‘ But there are still all these fans of our first record — especially on the continent , they 're really frank here — who come right up and say funny things like ( in a thick Scandinavian accent ) ‘ T'was not superior , but was OK ’ and ‘ So much lovey pop — ridiculous ’ . |
| 16 | They also set up and run small group discussions , which is done by independent free-lance researchers as well . |
| 17 | The benefits which you would derive from a properly set up and run computerised accounting system should more than out-weigh the additional costs involved . |
| 18 | If she started to strew the floor with objects she received a firm warning then , if she persisted , her mother took her wrists and made her pick up and replace each object . |
| 19 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 20 | So , rather than give it all up and find another movie , they bought the licence to the film 's soundtrack ( a rather haunting piece by Vangelis ) which , surprise surprise , was called ‘ Blade Runner ’ ! |
| 21 | unc unc Remember how the metric tables are built up and learn these comparisons . |
| 22 | The contract would promote his new song Coming Up and attract new TV viewers . |
| 23 | And that annoyed me enough to drive me to my cabin , to clean myself up and choose fresh clothing . |
| 24 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 25 | For ICI Catalysts and Technology Licensing [ C&TL ] can offer services that not only speed up and enhance chemical processes but also provide countries with the ability to build highly efficient industrial plants that play a key part in enhancing food production . |
| 26 | I still get jelly in the belly , Joe , when I stand up and face those bods . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |