Example sentences of "up and [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had finished , Rachaela got up and walked to one of the windows . |
| 2 | By the end of 1910 , complete plans for a standard ambulance train had been drawn up and sent to all the main companies , all of whom agreed to supply one or more in the event of war , to the Wolverton Works specification . |
| 3 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 4 | In Russia the children will be split up and sent to different orphanges . |
| 5 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 6 | We are all linked up and committed to two missionary families , the Collicts and the Meikles . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you ca n't do that here , ’ said the Dormouse crossly , and he got up and moved to another seat . |
| 8 | But before you can say femme fatale , poor old Singapore Sling has been captured , tied up and subjected to all manner of indignities by the unhinged pair . |
| 9 | And there he was he was held up and shown to passing motorists . |
| 10 | In both cases the greater stability and permanency of the labour force encouraged farmers to build more tied cottages in order to ensure a supply of labour — and the significance of tied cottages was further increased by estates being broken up and sold to sitting tenants , a change which also brought about a decline in the number of closed villages . |
| 11 | Rods were set up and attached to gaudy plastic lures which were trolled some distance behind the boat . |