Example sentences of "up and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , she sat up and looked the big rascal right in the eye . |
| 2 | Go up and get the old and see if . |
| 3 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 4 | I got up and sprinted the 150 yards or so . |
| 5 | Carl looked up and saw the young air hostess . |
| 6 | Carl looked up and saw the young air hostess staring at them . |
| 7 | Then he looked up and saw the great rat . |
| 8 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 9 | Suddenly , there was a commotion at the door and I looked up and saw the skinny preacher walk in . |
| 10 | She looked up and saw the high , gleaming shape of a Rolls-Royce double parked beside a taxi . |
| 11 | When he looked up and saw the charging buffalo , Joseph raised his Winchester in an instinctive reflex action and dropped to his knees . |
| 12 | Clare looked up and saw the tallest man she had ever seen ; he had curly black hair and black-lashed , dark brown eyes , now filled with worry . |
| 13 | He would n't miss her right away , and even if he looked up and saw the empty stool he 'd probably assume she was inside the hut . |
| 14 | Before she knew it Rosa had stood up and deposited the soft warm bundle in Ruth 's arms . |
| 15 | Nigel , always ready for action , leapt up and seized the big jug of water . |
| 16 | He jumped up and tipped the flaming toast into the sink . |
| 17 | A small corner of my brain ached to send the message : Hand rise up and smash the soft , repulsive body away … but … |
| 18 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 19 | Now and then , when the night sky is starless , I look up and form the hilarious suspicion that the world will soon start making sense . |
| 20 | When Guinness is dispensed from a draught tap , the consumer is able to see the ‘ surge ’ rise up and form the characteristic creamy head . |
| 21 | Billy looked gloomy and his friend got up and collected the empty mugs . |
| 22 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 23 | The shielding protects you — though you still need to do some fancy flying to stay stable within the radioactive thermals — then as the cloud dissipates you cut out and down , across the mountains — they look tiny ! — swoop across the closed valley , loose the missile when the base 's defence radar picks you up and use the last of your fuel to escape over the far side while the missile takes out the base . |
| 24 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 25 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 26 | ‘ But you must put your feet up and let the younger ones get on with being busy for a change . |
| 27 | Australian railways took up and developed the Italianate style which had been so influential in Britain and the United States earlier in the century , and by the time the principal Australian stations were built , classical was in style once more . |
| 28 | He picked it up and tapped the old tobacco out onto the range . |
| 29 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 30 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |