Example sentences of "up and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They will also take up and re-lay loose floor coverings and pack and unpack fragile items such as glass and china . |
2 | They both started throwing up and seeing flashing lights ! |
3 | The agents enable NetSecure to back up and restore local Macintosh and Unix workstation and hard drives , where previous versions enabled only Macintosh and Unix files stored on the server to be backed up and restored . |
4 | But mother crumbled it up and sprinkled dry salt over it instead . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The Corporals took it in turns to watch those digging from the shelter of the farmhouse , wrapped up and drinking hot coffee . |
7 | In his view Russia and the other successor states will need years and billions of dollars to clean up and monitor radioactive pollution . |
8 | Decision-process models also assume that consumer learning and experience will build up and affect future purchase situations . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Each has its disadvantages and advantages , but each incorporates a running swivel on the main line which , when fished in waters subject to algae particles , can foul up and obstruct sensitive bite detection , and neither makes for accurate , long-distance casting . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Litigants should benefit from changes recommended by the Civil Justice Review to speed up and simplify civil cases . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Some museums offer Victorian classrooms where pupils can dress up and experience Victorian schooling methods . |
17 | Belladonna , which is not a nosode , may clear up and prevent scarlet fever , though this disease is little seen nowadays . |
18 | The two basic strategies for reducing smoking related disease are to support existing smokers in giving up and to dissuade young people from starting . |
19 | ‘ Your hair , ’ she said , ‘ your hair , ’ and reached up and took sliding handfuls of it , and the kiss changed , became the kiss of before . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Do n't waste your time setting up and maintaining expensive control procedures . |
23 | Go out and train , build yourselves up and become super rugby players ’ . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 |
26 | Why did genes choose to gang up and make large bodies for themselves to live in ? |
27 | Such waves pile water up and initiate longshore currents . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | You measure those up and make little templates to scale to represent them . |
30 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |