Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He got up and walked over to the group of children and chatted with them for a moment . |
| 32 | She stood up and walked over to the arch that separated the two rooms , taking her time to search the room for Mike . |
| 33 | Lewis stood up and walked over to the door , where he halted . |
| 34 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 35 | Shrub nodded at their astonishment , and then , without another word , stood up and walked away through the bushes . |
| 36 | I struck up and walked slowly down the hill . |
| 37 | After a while she got up and walked slowly from the kitchen into the bedroom . |
| 38 | After a few moments Troy got up and walked slowly from the tent . |
| 39 | Alfred put his book in his wallet , slung his bow , and with pipe in one hand and flask in the other , stood up and walked on beside the friar . |
| 40 | She took a deep breath , held her head up and walked forward to the end of the table . |
| 41 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 42 | But when , after an hour , the rain eased off , she quietly got up and walked out of the house . |
| 43 | Naturally the film only showed the sequence once , and having seen it , Wil got up and walked out of the cinema . |
| 44 | Geoffrey Parchmeiner , Philippa 's betrothed , stood up and walked out of the darkness near the wall . |
| 45 | Then he got up and walked out into the antechamber . |
| 46 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 47 | Perceiving the child 's intentions , Nana got up and walked stiffly to the front room , returning in an instant with the curling photograph of Queen Elizabeth from the sugar shelf . |
| 48 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 49 | The stone swung up and landed heavily on the floor . |
| 50 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 51 | There was a smile on his face and it was still on his face when he stopped as if seized up and fell headlong in the passageway . |
| 52 | I I tripped up and fell down at the side . |
| 53 | She stood up and ran over to the bush where she had left her clothes . |
| 54 | Lee got up and ran back to the toilet , picking up the helmet that was on the floor . |
| 55 | The second officer said : ‘ I got up and ran out of the tent . |
| 56 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 57 | Cameron got up and went over to the back window . |
| 58 | The thought of Milward cheered him up , and he got up and went over to the bookcase where the offending pamphlet was stored . |
| 59 | He got up and went over to the sack . |
| 60 | After a moment , he stood up and went over to the window . |