Example sentences of "up and [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When other sunsigner 's get up and go has got up and gone you 're still going strong , so take pity on a pooped pal or po-fagged partner and ease up a little Tuesday . |
| 2 | ‘ Drink up and get dressed . |
| 3 | ‘ Hurry up and get done — I 've got so-and-so coming . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now , if you want a lift , get up and get moving . |
| 5 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 6 | ‘ Hurry up and get changed then . |
| 7 | And so you get these , these somewhat stupefied er or one over the eight wasps rolling around , er and er you know , not , not being terribly active , but that , that is the time at which of course people do tend to tread on them or pick them up and get stung . |
| 8 | The alarm clock rings , so you get up and get washed ; then you get dressed ; then you have breakfast … ‘ |
| 9 | I was to phone him up and arrange to meet him . |
| 10 | Now shut up and stop insulting my staff . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , shut up and stop fussing , ’ he said forcibly , ducking neatly through the doorway . |
| 12 | where 's your shoe ? you 've lost your shoe , oh is that it ? , there it is , put your feet down , let's have your shoe back on , you put your foot rest up and stop clanging it please |
| 13 | In a fiery Commons exchange , Mr Major replied : ‘ When will you start talking this country up and stop talking it down ? |
| 14 | Alright , shut up and stop talking ! |
| 15 | ‘ Get up and stop whimpering , ’ the Trunchbull barked . |
| 16 | ‘ They could n't , surely , have been arguing about him repeatedly popping up and wanting to talk to her . |
| 17 | Wakes up and got to hoover . |
| 18 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 19 | I just picked it up and got rid of it . |
| 20 | Once it arrives in America , a team of experts from Stoddards will set it up and help to train the new operatives . |
| 21 | A man came up and offered to buy him a drink . |
| 22 | She went over and helped him up and offered to buy him breakfast which , after a lot of persuasion , he accepted . |
| 23 | And on the very day when she had woken up and decided to divorce him , to celebrate the fact that she finally had a life of her own ; a life which did n't include Julius Landor . |
| 24 | About 30 tons of turf and top soil , and several tons of burned tarmac , were removed from the area over which the aircraft had broken up and come to rest ; the tyres of vehicles , footwear of personnel , and all items of equipment used at the site , were taken to the hanger and cleaned of mud and grass . |
| 25 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 26 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 27 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 28 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |
| 29 | A straggler had also been rounded up and had rejoined the other whales . |
| 30 | No need to go to bed when Amabel went because she did not like to keep the servants sitting up and had had nightmares , ever since Gemma 's birth , about accidents with bedtime candles . |