Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki … |
| 2 | Artemis reached up and took it down off the shelf . |
| 3 | So the lad went up and tracked it . |
| 4 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 6 | Mr Brown then put a piece of cheese between his lips and the blackbird flew up and took it . |
| 7 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 8 | Mungo reached up and took it down , sending more marbles cannoning across the floor as he moved a foot . |
| 9 | Trams went up and down it . |
| 10 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 11 | Mr Wishart stood up and opened it for her , handing her the wicker basket which seemed surprisingly light ; the old lady stepped off the train onto a now deserted platform . |