Example sentences of "stood up [adv] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Miaow , thought Jenny as young Curtis stood up awkwardly and set off for the bar , turning after a couple of steps to ask , ‘ What do you want ? ’
2 Both men listened to it for a moment , then Duclos stood up restlessly and walked over to his gramophone .
3 She got to the bus station , stood up straight and went out to the ticket counter .
4 Topknot , who had been muttering to himself , stood up suddenly and spoke very sharply at great length , with a lot of pointing to the ground and to the sky .
5 He stood up unsteadily and looked around .
6 Cleo hissed in reply , stood up quickly and marched up to her bedroom , slamming the door behind her .
7 He stood up abruptly and walked across to the window , staring outside at the same nondescript view that she herself had spent over fifteen minutes staring at earlier on .
8 Juliet stood up angrily and walked rigidly across to the window .
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