Example sentences of "up and [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No getting up and leaving hospital in two days then . |
| 2 | In some cases this may be a result of parental pressure and an earlier lack of encouragement to grow up and exercise adult autonomy . |
| 3 | It is difficult to imagine a more ardent disciple of the American work ethic , combining spartan living with high academic endeavour : he was the epitome of the Get Up And Go philosophy . |
| 4 | We 'll climb on up and get help to you . |
| 5 | ‘ The hospital was really overcrowded — one ward was closed , but they had to open it up and get agency nurses in to help the staff cope with all the babies . |
| 6 | But it was the resulting tsunami that did the greater damage : it lumbered away to the north-west , speeding up and gathering energy as it did so . |
| 7 | She looked up and saw admiration in his eyes . |
| 8 | And then when I got up and saw time , I thought oh bugger me ! |
| 9 | Near the draw dock some longshoremen had heaped it up and set light to it , to clear the area . |
| 10 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 11 | In doing this they pick up and swallow mud , gravel and other matter . |
| 12 | These are used , for instance , to determine whether the same items keep cropping up and require duplication or allocation to short loan collections , and also to identify missing titles and replace them . |
| 13 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 14 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
| 15 | I am an ‘ old Briton ’ who grew up and attended school and university alongside ‘ new Britons ’ . |
| 16 | They were reportedly leaving a restaurant in a normally quiet quarter of the town when the gunman drove up and demanded money and valuables . |
| 17 | There was a great noise of shuffling boots and dropped books , and the readers already established in the outer room looked up and clicked disapproval with their tongues . |
| 18 | However , when Mary stood up and took hold of the reins that were trailing on the ground , she thrashed the horse with her cane . |
| 19 | Now he drew himself up and Took Control . |
| 20 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |
| 21 | The rugby world stood up and took notice and Best was marked out as a man destined for greater things . |
| 22 | Sandy Lyle , Nick Faldo , Bernhard Langer , all looked up and took note . |
| 23 | So Tommy comes up and says Dad , yes son , can you come to the school sports day , and you say , when 's that son ? |
| 24 | They would only have grown up and become Boy Scouts . |
| 25 | He sat up and rubbed sleep from his eyes . |
| 26 | At five they woke up and made love again , a different way . |
| 27 | He turned to look at Myeloski , peering urgently out of the window as the traffic stacked up and made movement impossible , and knew that he had nothing in common with these people , nothing that could be shared because of his blood . |
| 28 | Then he dozed in an armchair for a few hours , until he was too cold and stiff to bear it any longer , when he got up and made tea for everyone , and discovered that there was nothing to eat for breakfast . |
| 29 | I got up and made coffee . |
| 30 | When the meal was finished , Rachaela washed up and made coffee , and Ruth retired behind her screen . |