Example sentences of "up and [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then take them back up and get a two . |
| 2 | Indeed , wages only began to catch up and threaten a widening wage/price spiral in 1973 . |
| 3 | He had bent down , his hand among the grasses but as she spoke he straightened up and thrust a grubby fist into his pocket . |
| 4 | Elizabeth looked up and saw a brown uniform and a friendly face , framed in the lovely black hair typical of the Maltese . |
| 5 | He looked up and saw a wooden stave falling towards his head . |
| 6 | I looked up and saw a big-ribbed canopy of light pink and white descending over me , and the next moment I felt myself drawn downward , feet first , and I realised that I was being swallowed by a whale . |
| 7 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 8 | " Well , " Ajayi said , leaving the open entrance to the balcony as a light wind picked up and blew a small flurry of snow around her booted feet , " at least the game 's over . " |
| 9 | Just like the other doctors , it has scrubbed up and donned a protective gown before starting work in Sacramento , California . |
| 10 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 11 | The small group halted as Springfield and the other ran up and formed a loose throng around them . |
| 12 | Well I think it 's best to , yeah yeah , I mean o the best thing to do is actually lift it up and use a little bit of the underneath to try out the colours what colour 's that going to be ? |
| 13 | ‘ I best not tell Nancy , or she might come up and 'ave a jealous fit all over the room . |
| 14 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |
| 15 | All he had to do was get up and walk a few steps and he could escape it all . |
| 16 | Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face , streaking the dirt still further . |
| 17 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
| 18 | Robyn looked up and forced a sarcastic smile . |
| 19 | ‘ They tried to play our style of basketball and it worked our guys up and brought a competitive edge out of them . ’ |
| 20 | Following the 1987 general election , Margaret Thatcher set up and headed a small committee to examine the health service . |
| 21 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 22 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 23 | She gave a slight , sad smile , stood up and took a few paces round the bedroom . |
| 24 | Best bought in by the load , it becomes expensive when stacked , composted , mixed with a little poultry , bagged up and given a fancy proprietary name . |
| 25 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 26 | ‘ Go to that place where you grew up and tell a local estate agent you want the cheapest thing he 's got . |
| 27 | Blufton stood up and plunged a pudgy hand into a concertina file . |
| 28 | Use the same posters as we had last year , but put on , cover up and put a new on , use them up . |
| 29 | Downstairs in the kitchen he found that Celia had done the washing up and left a fresh pint of milk and the morning 's mail on the table . |
| 30 | When the hatches were shut you could n't see where they were , but whenever the Thing was really interested in something it opened up and extended a small silver dish on a pole , or a complicated arrangement of pipes . |