Example sentences of "up and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 2 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 3 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |
| 4 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 5 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 6 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 7 | Conversely , flame-coloured harridans that looked as if only Agent Orange could stop them curled up and died of aristocratic pique at the advancing hordes of dandelions . |
| 8 | Although projects for the reform of the courts were being drawn up and had in some cases been completed , " the date of their publication can not yet be predicted with any certainty " . |
| 9 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 10 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 11 | The fabric he is shifting will be taken to one of the many ateliers in Paris to be cut up and sewn into ready-to-wear , middle-market fashion . |
| 12 | Being bundled up and escorted from old peoples home to movie premiere , from infant school to racecourse , from hospital to Cup final . |
| 13 | ‘ … and you kept your mouth shut but you were beaten up and threatened with worse . |
| 14 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 15 | Nicolette 's fusion of banging bass and meandering , torchy vocals — spiced with American blues and African music influences — has been impressing people since she was signed by north London 's Shut Up And Dance in 1990 . |
| 16 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 17 | She had intensive physiotherapy treatment every day on a one-to-one basis , and gradually recovered her balance , so that she could stand up and walk with some help . |
| 18 | Harris asked the Ambassador whether he had received any letters from Amnesty members concerning Guatemalan street children ( who are routinely rounded up and beaten by that country 's security forces ) . |
| 19 | When they had finished , Rachaela got up and walked to one of the windows . |
| 20 | By the end of 1910 , complete plans for a standard ambulance train had been drawn up and sent to all the main companies , all of whom agreed to supply one or more in the event of war , to the Wolverton Works specification . |
| 21 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 22 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 23 | It is therefore unwise to allow grass to grow up and mature in late summer . |
| 24 | The experimenter instructed each child to pick up and talk about one toy and then applied a mild ‘ punishment ’ if he or she chose the more attractive of the pair . |
| 25 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 26 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | As the son of noble parents , Rodrigo was brought up and trained in knightly pursuits at the court of Prince Sancho , eldest son of King Ferdinand of Castile and Leon . |
| 28 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 29 | In other words , what we should be aiming for is a trust , respect , sharing , honouring , building up and obeying of one another such as Jesus experienced with his Father . |
| 30 | A man jumped up and ran after Black Dog . |