Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped up and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 2 | I got up and kissed her on the way up and went to meet the boys . |
| 3 | Mrs Mrs rang me up and ask me about the one |
| 4 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 5 | Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy . |
| 6 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 7 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 8 | Take about three bananas , and cut them up and arrange them on a plate in four pieces to look like a monster . |
| 9 | Old people , in old people 's homes , sometimes regress to this stage , and they also can be observed to play with faeces and to wrap them up and present them as a gift . |
| 10 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 11 | If the candidate seems settled in for the day stand up and help him/her with their coat , or begin to walk towards the door . |
| 12 | Jonathan , Jonathan , dad wants to watch the news in a minute please , so hurry up and change it over You 'd think they 'd save that You do n't know , I would n't be surprised you will well that 's marvellous is n't it ? |
| 13 | Damon kept rolling them up and using them as megaphones . |
| 14 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 15 | Old Henry VII , father to the Great Killer , was a born miser and inveterate liar who would n't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the nose . |
| 16 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 17 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 18 | She arched against him , her hands searching desperately for his skin , and with a harsh groan he stood up and dragged her to her feet . |
| 19 | But hardly had the applause for the Collector died down when two hands reached up and dragged him down the stairs by his braces and into the crowd . |
| 20 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 21 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 23 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 24 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 25 | Colin , get that photograph of that Porsche , blow it up and stick it at your work-station in your branch . |
| 26 | And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap . |
| 27 | For answer Penry picked her up and tossed her into the bed , stripped off his dressing-gown and turned out the light . |
| 28 | She tore them up and tossed them into the bin . |
| 29 | She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago . |
| 30 | ‘ She got our backs up and treated us like schoolchildren , ’ said Davies . |