Example sentences of "up and [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 2 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 3 | After blunting two ice-screws I give up and go for the peg . |
| 4 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 5 | When Stuart and I heard this we got up and looked for the nearest exit . |
| 6 | The villages of Yater and Kafra were seized by Israeli troops , and buildings were blown up and searched for rockets ; 25 Lebanese and two Israelis were reported killed and four members of the Fijian contingent of UNIFIL were wounded , two of them seriously . |
| 7 | Thérèse sat up and fumbled for the light-switch that dangled from a cord beside the bed . |
| 8 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 9 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 10 | The kitchen then became a hive of industry , with the fat being cut up and rendered for lard , kept in a big earthenware pot . |
| 11 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 12 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 13 | I 'd sit out in my car , all made up and wait for the stage doorkeeper to come and fetch me . ’ |
| 14 | We thought we 'd just come back up and wait for it , have a little more fun . ’ |
| 15 | Stand up and wait for silence . |
| 16 | Go up and wait for me . ’ |
| 17 | But grypesh do much the same as we do : they hole up and wait for the weather to pass . ’ |
| 18 | If you want to ask me something or tell me about something you put your hand up and wait for me to ask you . |
| 19 | Sandra : Shut up and listen for once . |
| 20 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 21 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 22 | The fear and revulsion felt by such parents has been well documented by the many parents who have initially wanted their child to die , and then gone on to bring up and care for their mentally handicapped child . |
| 23 | I shall come in every day to clean up and cook for them . |
| 24 | Leading at that stage by two strokes , the conservative thing to do was lay up and settle for a five . |
| 25 | As part of a wider plan to restore Naples ' historic centre and bring back into public use an artistic and historical heritage that has been shut up and neglected for too long , the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici in Naples has announced a programme of restoration of twenty-six churches to start on 5 December . |
| 26 | The Charter Unit 's second-class sets , or more correctly standard class sets as BR now prefers to describe them , also underwent refurbishment during the tail end of the 1980s with twenty-four of the Mk 1 TSOs being smartened up and fitted for air braking during 1988 , and a further twelve earmarked for the same treatment during the early part of 1990 . |
| 27 | Then , as one nome , they gave up and ran for it , fighting their way through the scrub and grass , skidding on stones , elbows going up and down like pistons . |
| 28 | Quickly , I picked myself up and ran for my life through the trees . |
| 29 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 30 | Each year they asked all the people to do little sketches , and as my sister and I spoke French , we thought it might be quite fun to do a kind of singing and dancing cabaret act — it was quite risqué at the time — I was fourteen — and in fact we were spotted by a talent scout who wanted us to come up and audition for a show in a London night club . |