Example sentences of "up and [verb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 's three men crouching round them now , as Tufnell comes to bowl to , who covers up and plays a very certain spec defensive shot . |
| 2 | He looked up and managed a somewhat wavering smile . |
| 3 | So in this last example the participle form does match up and produces a grammatically well-formed sentence . |
| 4 | Money is well spent in setting up and maintaining a properly serviced grass roots party organisation . |
| 5 | The ambassador and his wife were very pleasant , and as the Ambassador stood up and made a very impressive speech in Chinese , I thought him a distinct improvement on his confrère in the Hague ! |
| 6 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 7 | This reduces the amount of memory your file needs , speeds things up and gives a much better result at the end of the day than you could ever hope to achieve with a scanner . |
| 8 | Fred was in the kitchen tidying up and putting the freshly washed pots and pans in their proper places . |
| 9 | It is not simply a general or universal awareness of God , though it gathers up and refines the more general consciousness to be found in other religions and at the very core of human existence as such . |