Example sentences of "up and [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both started throwing up and seeing flashing lights ! |
| 2 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 3 | When we all went to the pub and some of them went up and got non-alcoholic drinks and that , and they all said they could n't go into a pub and do that and they done it , no problem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was glad when Sunday morning arrived , I woke up and saw two suitcases bulging on my bedroom floor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As already noted , video lights are great consumers of electric power : for every 1000 watts of light a current of just over 4 amps at 240 volts ( 9 amps at 110 volts ) is required , so safe working practices are paramount when you are setting up and using high-power lamps . |
| 8 | this time we were able to stand at a distance from it all and weigh it up and write better songs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Litigants should benefit from changes recommended by the Civil Justice Review to speed up and simplify civil cases . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 13 | In The Alexandria Quartet ( 1957 — 60 ) , for example , Lawrence Durrell 's narrator Darley sets up and discusses aesthetic paradoxes , including ones affecting the text in which he figures , quite often enough to justify Durrell 's view that , as a whole , ‘ the novel is only half secretly about art , the great subject of modern artists ’ ( in Cowley 1963 : 231 ) . |
| 14 | Moreover , since their condition limits their ability to pick up and assimilate new words and to understand the subtleties of language , the problem becomes greater as more specialised vocabulary and abstract terms are introduced . |
| 15 | What , you 're going to get two four bedroomed houses and two double garages up and retain some trees in that bit ? |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | If you stand up and walk ten steps |
| 18 | ‘ Your hair , ’ she said , ‘ your hair , ’ and reached up and took sliding handfuls of it , and the kiss changed , became the kiss of before . |
| 19 | The RSPCA want Magistrates to toughen up and ban cruel owners for a minimum of 5 years , if not more , to prevent them from harming animals like the unfortunate Max again . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eyvør woke up and made food-begging noises , so the Birdman finished his story and cut up some more strips of herring which he fed to the little bird . |
| 22 | Quite clearly the reason that people have been asked to come along this evening and have come along this evening is to put there points of view about how the see the theatre in the future what is programme facilities are the things that are n't happening here they feel should be happening here that 's what it 's for not here to serve any purpose for individuals to get up and make personal cuts on people or say what happen on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon cos I |
| 23 | Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in ? |
| 24 | Tadpoles grew up and became more frogs . |
| 25 | Such waves pile water up and initiate longshore currents . |
| 26 | He 'd come down and try to get us to translate his prayers into English , or would turn up and recite Koranic verses he 'd half translated with Mahmoud or one of the other English-speakers . |
| 27 | You measure those up and make little templates to scale to represent them . |
| 28 | Just before midnight she got up and swallowed two aspirins with some water which she hoped would calm her down . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Insurance begins as soon as your Home Improvement Loan has been set up and covers all repayments up to £750 per month and an overall total of £30,000 . |