Example sentences of "and [verb] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 2 | Cedric sank happily on to the tattered hearthrug at his feet and gazed up adoringly at his new master . |
| 3 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 4 | They want brothels like they want to drink and stay up late : because in Britain such things are Not On , foreign , disreputable , on a par with rabies , garlic and sodomy . |
| 5 | Come and sit up here now . |
| 6 | Then you go back and sit up there . |
| 7 | Remember , it is important to start gently and build up slowly . |
| 8 | If you decide to exercise at home ( and there are many programmes and routines on tape , in magazines and in books ) remember to start slowly and build up gradually , following the warming-up exercise faithfully at the beginning and end of the programme . |
| 9 | With all forms of exercise , it 's important to start slowly and build up gently . |
| 10 | She cried out and doubled up then sat up . |
| 11 | The stained sex chromatin body in mouse nuclei is not as distinctive as in the nuclei of some other mammalian species because the chromocentres ( regions in which centromeric heterochromatin collect ) are localized and stain up almost as intensely . |
| 12 | Which is centred on Birmingham and goes up as far as the Humber Estuary and down as far as the Severn Estuary . |
| 13 | We would n't kiss and make up later . |
| 14 | The party atmosphere went on all through dinner , prevailed through a short scene put on by Zak to explain that the Mountie had been left behind in Winnipeg for investigations on the ground and heated up thoroughly afterwards with more unsteady dancing and laughter in the dome car . |
| 15 | But by the time strands of sounds of the fair floated up from the park , people were beginning to get home , wash , relax and pick up again . |
| 16 | On sites rich in fossils , collectors often become bored with the commoner animals and pick up only the rarer ones . |
| 17 | Shiva 's Fifth Avenue was a long , curving , treeless street that dipped steeply down and switchbacked up again , though the neighbourhood was not in general a particularly hilly place . |
| 18 | ‘ It was partly the Welshness of it all which appealed to her — the wool is grown , spun , woven and made up here in Wales , but it was also her feeling that in the commercial life everything was grab , grab , grab and here was a little corner of the world where she could do a bit of good . ’ |
| 19 | It passes first through high , increasingly thin pastures and then between tremendous rock-falls to the small settlement of Héas , the highest it is said anywhere in the Pyrenees , at 5,000 feet , swamped by an avalanche in 1915 and made up today only of a chapel and two or three houses . |
| 20 | People who work through and are paid by agencies numbered only some 50,000 in 1984 and made up only just over three per cent of the total temporary labour force . |
| 21 | Many thanks are due to all the members of the old team who have worked so hard for many years and given up so much of their time to represent the Society . |
| 22 | Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas . |
| 23 | Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas . |
| 24 | If the floor of the cave passage is rock or clay ( as opposed to water ) , even more calcite is deposited and builds up very , very gradually into stalagmites . |
| 25 | Because of the pain I could n't manage to pull the sledge in the uphill parts , so I had to break the bales in half , tie them up separately and carry them to the level bits , and load up again . |
| 26 | Sometimes it shrivelled into itself like water splashing on hot stones , then flared out again as its owner shrank down in a spasm of coughing and straightened up again . |
| 27 | Jim sat down by the fire in Albert 's old chair and then reversed direction and got up again in one amazing movement . |
| 28 | Yeah , he 's up there sound-o , and he was up this way , he went up at one and got up about ten minutes after this one , so |
| 29 | While Nails was still reading his comic , she lay down and got up twice , which had never happened before . |
| 30 | He put the platter on the floor and got up stiffly . |