Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] up [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 2 | No , we 'll have to have a look tomorrow they 'd better hurry up and eat though had n't they ? |
| 3 | you 're not going without me I said you 'd better hurry up and get bloody dressed then had n't you ? |
| 4 | Why do n't you just give up and go back down to London ? |
| 5 | Now these do n't just add up or cancel out . |
| 6 | he walks past there , if he really wanted to bust us that bad he 'd probably just come up and say right |
| 7 | does n't say all that much , she 'll probably just get up and walk out of the room or , or heave a big sigh or something . |
| 8 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 9 | But why does n't she just shut up and get on with it , like everybody else ? |
| 10 | No sound was more typical of Iran-contra than the dropping of a secret , like a stone , into otherwise peaceful conversation ; at which the other participants would carefully get up and walk away . |
| 11 | He was not reading the district well this evening , he might as well give up and go home . |
| 12 | ‘ We might as well give up and die right here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You were saying we might as well give up and die right here , ’ said Granny Morkie helpfully . |