Example sentences of "up and [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No getting up and leaving hospital in two days then . |
| 2 | We 'll climb on up and get help to you . |
| 3 | She looked up and saw admiration in his eyes . |
| 4 | Near the draw dock some longshoremen had heaped it up and set light to it , to clear the area . |
| 5 | There was a great noise of shuffling boots and dropped books , and the readers already established in the outer room looked up and clicked disapproval with their tongues . |
| 6 | However , when Mary stood up and took hold of the reins that were trailing on the ground , she thrashed the horse with her cane . |
| 7 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |
| 8 | He sat up and rubbed sleep from his eyes . |
| 9 | Then he dozed in an armchair for a few hours , until he was too cold and stiff to bear it any longer , when he got up and made tea for everyone , and discovered that there was nothing to eat for breakfast . |
| 10 | She eyed me speculatively but I was hardening up and met glance with innocent glance . |
| 11 | And erm but George has got ta get up and go work in the morning . |
| 12 | She is no longer simply a steady rallier and scampering retriever , but can tie opponents up and make use of the openings created . |
| 13 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 14 | Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene . |
| 15 | Mostly our air arrives from the west which is why we sit up and take notice of the weather in America , although actually it can change a great deal on the way over here . |
| 16 | I just hope people sort of sit up and take notice of it . |
| 17 | They were trying to sneak up and gain entry without being seen by the shapechanger . |
| 18 | Just ring him up and have lunch with him the next day and it 'll be all right . ’ |
| 19 | Once the truly exploitative nature of the system was revealed to the proletariat , they would rise up and replace capitalism with a system based upon common ownership and collective action . |
| 20 | Pascoe scrambled up and found cover behind the light . |
| 21 | Economic trends occur swiftly and become established before large industries can scale up and take advantage of new demands . |
| 22 | ‘ You have to sit up and take notice of his great knowledge about the game . |
| 23 | She appealed for society to sit up and take notice of problems faced by young people driven from home by sexual abuse , violence or neglect . |
| 24 | I hope that people will sit up and take notice of it . |
| 25 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 26 | She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky . |
| 27 | In solos you often find them used to thicken up and to add depth to single note lines ; in rhythm parts they are commonly used instead of large chord voicings to lighten up parts . |
| 28 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 29 | ‘ Let us walk up and discuss philosophy in the moonlight . ’ |
| 30 | Headaches are congestive and throbbing ; blood mounts to the head ; better ( > ) cold and rest , worse ( < ) heat , motion and lying down ; often they have to sit up and apply pressure to the head and a cold application . |