Example sentences of "up and [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not pretty to watch , with the ball often being held up and played back to Cann , but it was effective , and Farnham were ready to strike when their own chance came along . |
| 2 | Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates . |
| 3 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 4 | I think about it for a bit , then I get up and go over to the shops . |
| 5 | I get up and go over to him . |
| 6 | We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time . |
| 7 | Drink up and get back to bed . ’ |
| 8 | He stood up and strode over to the window , leaving her totally confused . |
| 9 | Fitting the right lock in the right place will make a thief think twice — he might give up and move on to easier targets . |
| 10 | Sometimes , when he did , he wondered whether , however daunting the operation seemed , he would sell up and move back to London . |
| 11 | It was a relief when they could get up and move back to the sitting-room . |
| 12 | This was a test of how fast the regiment could pack up and move out to its battle positions , and was supposed to come as a big surprise , but Maxim knew how easy it was to predict . |
| 13 | It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really . |
| 14 | absolutely but that is n't quite the same as actually having been taken up and developed up to ninety six . |
| 15 | The remaining bare shell is then cut up and sent off to its grave in the industry 's melting pot . |
| 16 | They stopped and another friend bound for the same place , who had seen the problem , pulled up and walked over to them . |
| 17 | Masklin got up and walked over to a large leather bag half-wedged under the seat . |
| 18 | Finally , Ricci got up and walked over to her daughter , who immediately handed over the troublesome hammer . |
| 19 | Cattini got up and walked over to the barman who was wiping glasses . |
| 20 | Edward stood up and walked over to the window . |
| 21 | He got up and walked over to the group of children and chatted with them for a moment . |
| 22 | She stood up and walked over to the arch that separated the two rooms , taking her time to search the room for Mike . |
| 23 | Lewis stood up and walked over to the door , where he halted . |
| 24 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 25 | Athelstan thankfully reached St Erconwald 's , made sure everything was locked up and walked over to his house . |
| 26 | Miguel stood up and walked round to her , and said , ruffling her hair , ‘ He really did get to you , did n't he ? ’ |
| 27 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 28 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 29 | She stood up and ran over to the bush where she had left her clothes . |
| 30 | Lee got up and ran back to the toilet , picking up the helmet that was on the floor . |