Example sentences of "up and [pron] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point .
2 That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler .
3 Build you up and we can knock you down !
4 Yeah there 's our Action Line are doing a a bit list of bonfires and you can ring them up and they 'll tell you where to go .
5 you hear , in fact some folk waken up and they can feel it pulse coming up there .
6 I used to cut them all up and they used to leave me the legs , you know , the hams and the backs and they used to have a few joints off and take home and then the rest I used to lay it , put it into bacon down the cellar .
7 But she 's setting it up and she will find us somebody to carry on .
8 A shame not to be able to hear , but he knew if he took one more step towards them the scene would break up and he would lose them .
9 Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips .
10 pass my handbag up and I 'll give you that money for the cat food .
11 ‘ Come now , pet , let's kiss and make up and I 'll tell you about him .
12 Oh well you 'll ha if you keep getting it on your fingers just eat it up and I 'll wash you when you 've finished .
13 Put it back up and I 'll nail it up some time when I bring up erm , I 'll bring up a hammer
14 You hold it up and I 'll see I ca n't say what it is unless you show me .
15 . And when I was beginning to grow up and I used to visit her .
16 Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in .
17 If I had my life over again , I 'd see the mistakes coming up and I 'd correct them . ’
18 Change the social or physical conditions in which the animal is growing up and you may find it ends up with a different set of rules for learning .
19 Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person .
20 Oh well he could ring you up and you could take them back down but at least they would be dried .
21 The boy got up and you could see he was still nervous .
22 Until then , he 's putting his feet up and who 'd blame him ?
23 TV can pull people up and it can pull them down .
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