Example sentences of "up and [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 2 | The villages of Yater and Kafra were seized by Israeli troops , and buildings were blown up and searched for rockets ; 25 Lebanese and two Israelis were reported killed and four members of the Fijian contingent of UNIFIL were wounded , two of them seriously . |
| 3 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 4 | The kitchen then became a hive of industry , with the fat being cut up and rendered for lard , kept in a big earthenware pot . |
| 5 | Stand up and wait for silence . |
| 6 | The Charter Unit 's second-class sets , or more correctly standard class sets as BR now prefers to describe them , also underwent refurbishment during the tail end of the 1980s with twenty-four of the Mk 1 TSOs being smartened up and fitted for air braking during 1988 , and a further twelve earmarked for the same treatment during the early part of 1990 . |
| 7 | So if you bagged it up and put for sale on it , fifty pence . |
| 8 | In autumn when the plants have begun to die down naturally the perennials should have their flowered stems cut off at ground level , if not already done , and annuals should be dug up and put for compost . |
| 9 | The partner there was terribly embarrassed , rang me up and apologized for hours afterwards , could n't get him off the phone . |
| 10 | It 's not just something you can dress up and take for walks in the park . |
| 11 | Pencom Software Inc has kicked off a programme to rapidly prototype device drivers for NextStep 486 to help hardware and peripherals vendors get up and running for NextWorld next month . |
| 12 | They would become so hooked on their daily interaction with their licensed dealer that they would ring up and ask for job interviews , often with the connivance of their own dealers . |
| 13 | Because we , we have a large amount of cash which it suits us to get rid of rather than take it to the bank er to be added up and charged for cash handling . |
| 14 | Well I appreciate you deny it because er you said in answer to my friend that erm as I am required by rules to put it , er I do put to you that yes , you did have a shotgun , perhaps erm borrowed from one of the officers , yes you did put it to Mr head and you did tell him to er er shut up and wait for C I D. |
| 15 | The story of the lift does not end here , for it was many years before it was finally cut up and sold for scrap . |
| 16 | A spokesman for an industry lobby group , the Atomic Industrial Forum , assured New Scientist that , as the economy picks up and demand for electricity grows , states will reconsider their gloomy assessment of the atom . |
| 17 | ‘ The sort some men will sit up and beg for while others run ; it was n't only looks , she had style . ’ |