Example sentences of "up and [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishop West arrived back in Rangoon on 9th July to find that army chaplains and volunteer workers from the forces were hard at work to clean up and restore the cathedral , which had been used throughout the occupation as a factory for sauce and saki . |
| 2 | I saw Sam sit up and ease the pressure , and copied him immediately , none too soon for my taxed muscles and speed-starved lungs . |
| 3 | Indeed , wages only began to catch up and threaten a widening wage/price spiral in 1973 . |
| 4 | This enables anyone to look up and inspect the patent specification to determine its scope . |
| 5 | Maxim wished he had made the call himself even if George had had to look up and dial the number for him . |
| 6 | Erm all that remains is to say thank you all for taking the trouble to turn up and show an interest in the administration of the society . |
| 7 | I just thought I 'd come up and lend a hand . |
| 8 | The kuei will usually give up and leave a house in high dudgeon . |
| 9 | She would have to get up and leave the church . |
| 10 | The only hope we 've got is to split up and leave the quarry in little groups , once we get back . |
| 11 | Speaking at a conference on the protection of coastlines in Paris , she spoke of the " moral injunction " to clean up and protect the environment . |
| 12 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 13 | CONTRACT caterer Catering & Allied has teamed up with systems supplier T IS to speed up and simplify the job of stocktaking at its City of London contract with merchant bank Morgan Grenfell . |
| 14 | Mugabe said on May 2 , 1990 , that the government would amend the Constitution to speed up and simplify the redistribution of land , following the lapsing in April 1990 of the entrenched clauses of the Lancaster House agreement of 1980 , which stated that the government could only buy land which was freely offered for sale . |
| 15 | Daniel suppressed fairly easily an impulse to get up and open the door for him . |
| 16 | ‘ I best not tell Nancy , or she might come up and 'ave a jealous fit all over the room . |
| 17 | Indeed , just as with a demonstrative , so with the definite description in ( 18 ) , the addressee is invited to look up and identify the referent . |
| 18 | Not only can he build up and improve the fertility of his land , but also exploit that fertility up to and beyond its latent potential . |
| 19 | Turnpike trusts were formed to keep up and improve the " King 's Highway " . |
| 20 | All he had to do was get up and walk a few steps and he could escape it all . |
| 21 | The man in the shadows waved something green and glistening , and the waft of entrails touched the cat 's sensitive nostrils and made it sit up and watch the stranger . |
| 22 | Mundell , 22 , and Lieutenant Andrew Hadley , 24 , then stormed into Lt Richard Brearey 's room and asked him to get up and watch the results . |
| 23 | A child , allowed to stay up and watch the ball 's beginning , stared wide-eyed from a balcony , while the Countess tapped her stick on the parquet floor in time to the music . |
| 24 | The children are allowed to sit up and watch the programme when it finally goes out ( Howard has bought a small portable television set for the occasion ) . |
| 25 | He was calling to Juliet in the audience , telling her to wake up and watch the play . |
| 26 | Why did n't she give up and demand a separation ? |
| 27 | it 's the only , the , well they probably ta spend about you know , half an hour of that trying to get up and stop the coughing |
| 28 | it 's , it 's the shock comes up the legs , if it does n't break the ankles or feet or these it can break the bottom of the bone , a piece here , or it can travel up and break the base of the skull . |
| 29 | Our war efforts over the air were strengthened and increased : I wrote and produced a series of dramatic features to bring home to listeners the horrors of the Nazi blitz on London , and to build up and emphasize the importance of Winston Churchill 's leadership . |
| 30 | When her father was being stern with her , and she hid her face from the camera in the pillow on the morning before her wedding , he thought of all the arguments that he would have used to persuade her to get up and face the situation . |