Example sentences of "up and [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had bent down , his hand among the grasses but as she spoke he straightened up and thrust a grubby fist into his pocket . |
| 2 | Elizabeth looked up and saw a brown uniform and a friendly face , framed in the lovely black hair typical of the Maltese . |
| 3 | He looked up and saw a wooden stave falling towards his head . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 6 | " 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 . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The small group halted as Springfield and the other ran up and formed a loose throng around them . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face , streaking the dirt still further . |
| 11 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
| 12 | Robyn looked up and forced a sarcastic smile . |
| 13 | ‘ They tried to play our style of basketball and it worked our guys up and brought a competitive edge out of them . ’ |
| 14 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She gave a slight , sad smile , stood up and took a few paces round the bedroom . |
| 17 | Blufton stood up and plunged a pudgy hand into a concertina file . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 21 | Stella jumped up and made a clattering show of stacking the supper plates onto a tray . |
| 22 | At the hearing Randolph 's counsel , Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall QC ( a well-known right-wing lawyer , who also acted for the defendants in the Spectator libel case ) , got up and delivered a long and passionate address about the iniquity of what had happened . |
| 23 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |
| 24 | I caught him up and tried a few more questions , but he 'd cut off communications . |
| 25 | But , when she picked it up and gasped a breathless ‘ hello ’ , the voice that answered was n't Luke at all . |
| 26 | But then they went up and did a whole loada stuff for the miners . |
| 27 | Evelyn hesitated fractionally , then reached up and executed a perfect capital ‘ H ’ . |
| 28 | Then Sigarup sat up and pulled a large lemon out of his pocket . |
| 29 | Mama looked up and gave a great big sigh . |
| 30 | Willie looked up and gave a brief smile . |