Example sentences of "up and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 2 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 3 | It 's impossible ! she exclaimed to herself , getting up and leaning on the rough stone windowsill . |
| 4 | There 's still some who want the shrieking , whirling dervish of the old Associates days and refuse to give him any credit for growing up and wanting to just get on with it . |
| 5 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 6 | Iris was already up and splashing in the bath . |
| 7 | And I am not really sure of it at all , she thought , standing up and looking about her . |
| 8 | ‘ Caspar , ’ said Lee , jumping up and looking through the trees . |
| 9 | I remember Trevor [ Howard ] just standing up and looking at him , mouthing a bad word and walking out of the room . |
| 10 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 11 | Maggie announced , sitting up and looking at him seriously . |
| 12 | " Oh , they love it when the kids are babies , dressing them up and looking after them , everybody loves babies , but it 's different when they get older , " they say . |
| 13 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 14 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 15 | New initiatives aimed at attracting nurses back to work are springing up and developing throughout the UK . |
| 16 | They seemed further away , their shells passing over very high up and crashing into the area of the Orne canal . |
| 17 | In other words , what we should be aiming for is a trust , respect , sharing , honouring , building up and obeying of one another such as Jesus experienced with his Father . |
| 18 | And indeed B P G twelve , under the heading of environmental considerations says that a a authorities should have regard to environmental considerations , but recommend an environmental appraisal identifying , quantifying , weighing up and reporting on the environmental and other cost benefits of the measures which are proposed . |
| 19 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 20 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 21 | Danny Kelly made ‘ Once More ’ single of the week in NME and noted that The Wedding Present were : ‘ A band growing up and bristling with confidence … they have let loose with a second exhilarating little peach of punky powerpop . ’ |
| 22 | I thought you had just become part of her growing up and learning about life . |
| 23 | Growing up and learning to be independent can then be happier and healthier . |
| 24 | Perhaps a retired person , with no family can honestly say ‘ Right , I 'm selling up and moving to the Isle of Skye . ’ |
| 25 | As she describes in her book , she was an adolescent girl coming to grips with growing up and kicking against conventions ‘ but only in this rather middle-class way . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I 'll have to go in , ’ she said , standing up and slipping on her shoe . |
| 27 | I was smashing everything up and setting about people , 'cause I did n't know what was going on or nothing . |
| 28 | Whether this is good or bad remains to be seen , but the country has now opened up and according to the law , the owner of a Rembrandt drawing or a Cranach painting may sell it to anyone offering the right price . |
| 29 | And I really feel like going back putting my feet up and chatting to you a bit more because we have n't chatted enough have we ? |
| 30 | No , but I really feel like going back and putting my feet up and chatting to you a bit more , cos we have n't chatted enough have we ? |