Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 2 | Is this when they rang up and said they 'd got cakes left ? |
| 3 | And we went round this estate ca n't remember where it was and erm thought knock on the doors and se , ask people had seen it and then later in the day this woman phoned up and said she saw a couple of kids walk down the road with it and sort of ca , called them over and said oh I heard that his , his . |
| 4 | One day my mum rang up and said she did n't want me to come home again and that I should go to Social Services because she was sick and tired of all the bother and everything . |
| 5 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 6 | Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’ |
| 7 | Later he rang her up and said he had embarrassed her . |
| 8 | But the business we got from it wo n't be big , one lady rang up and said I heard about you on Radio York . |
| 9 | And if she came up and thought I had n't washed properly she would push my head under the water and hold it there . |
| 10 | He stood up and took his stole from the shelf where he always kept it . |
| 11 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 12 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 13 | Toby stood at my elbow , and when I 'd hung up and told him said , with a strange urgency , almost like despair : " No , no , not this Sunday , for Christ 's sake , ca n't you get out of it ? " |
| 14 | She screwed her eyes up and pretended she saw evening coming on . |
| 15 | On my right there is a sudden and implausible terrace of little bow-fronted villas from the early thirties , still waiting for this left-over country lane to grow up and get itself surfaced and turned into a bypass . |
| 16 | T. B. Bloody pest was stray animals , stray dogs — people would come up and say they 'd found a stray , and you 'd have to take it off them , take their name and address . |
| 17 | NOBODY , but nobody , can stand up and say they gave Mike Tyson a fight twice … and survived . |
| 18 | But Gabriel was in no position to speak up and say they did not want to go . ) |
| 19 | ‘ For goodness ’ sakes , hurry up , ’ she exclaimed , standing up and folding her stole around her . |