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 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 6 | If it 's a river we can find a place to hole up and get some rest . |
| 7 | I must clean myself up and get some lunch — I have a meeting on grading with various people up the road in the Civil Service Commission at quarter past two … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We got off and took cover for a while , then came up and got another bus to Fulham . |
| 10 | The Corporals took it in turns to watch those digging from the shelter of the farmhouse , wrapped up and drinking hot coffee . |
| 11 | In his view Russia and the other successor states will need years and billions of dollars to clean up and monitor radioactive pollution . |
| 12 | Decision-process models also assume that consumer learning and experience will build up and affect future purchase situations . |
| 13 | A Greek oil tanker broke up and spilled 12,000 tonnes of light crude oil off the west coast of Australia on 21 July , creating what was described as the country 's worst such environmental disaster . |
| 14 | I was glad when Sunday morning arrived , I woke up and saw two suitcases bulging on my bedroom floor . |
| 15 | Today , however , when she glanced up and saw two men high above her on a jig smiling and nudging each other , she simply fled back to the sanctuary of her office . |
| 16 | ‘ I looked up and saw this person — I did n't think of it as me . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | this time we were able to stand at a distance from it all and weigh it up and write better songs . |
| 20 | So people would phone up and complain that noise throughout the night was mainly concent er mainly down to the blues parties ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Litigants should benefit from changes recommended by the Civil Justice Review to speed up and simplify civil cases . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Let us hope that one day the council will wake up and end all street trading . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some museums offer Victorian classrooms where pupils can dress up and experience Victorian schooling methods . |
| 29 | What , you 're going to get two four bedroomed houses and two double garages up and retain some trees in that bit ? |
| 30 | Try to stand up and demand that fear leaves your inner being , like an unwanted guest . |