Example sentences of "[noun sg] up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the most exquisite kind of agony , unable to think of anything but making love to you , and then I was pushing your skirt up and getting my face slapped . |
| 2 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 3 | Lay the plaice on a board skinned side up and place a strip of salmon on top , patching with more salmon , if this becomes necessary . |
| 4 | He held the piece up and sighted it , squeezing the trigger , allowing the hammer to fall on an empty chamber . |
| 5 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 6 | Impelled by instinct , Rachaela took the drawing up and stared at it . |
| 7 | be up there on Saturday , I shall load the car up and take them |
| 8 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 9 | I started his car up and set his car in reverse |
| 10 | That means she 'll make her mind up and tell us , yeah we 'll make our minds up , the royal we |
| 11 | I think there 's got to be determination , consistency , the ability to listen to other people and then make your mind up and stick to it . |
| 12 | In a split second he made his mind up and decided to be decisive . |
| 13 | I caught the Corporal up and pointed this out . |
| 14 | Take some coffee up , or tea up and leave it there and in payment for the drinks that you 've had . |
| 15 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 16 | Erm do the zip up and tie a bow in those strings . |
| 17 | To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question . |
| 18 | 5.2 The Project Manager shall also be responsible setting up and maintaining a mechanism by which operational changes in the Project thought necessary by any of the Parties are submitted to the Project Committee for approval . |
| 19 | I 've got the word count from each one I 'll be able to sort of tot up and tell you when to stop collecting from that area . |
| 20 | Hoomey pushed the front seat up and leaned over , groping about on the back seat . |
| 21 | Snatching two minutes on the phone , Graham Massey explains what he likes to spliff up and chill out to . |
| 22 | You can pick the work up and do a bit of it whenever you have a few minutes to spare and the final result is really splendid , whether it is all bejewelled and decorated or made in a simple plain yarn . |
| 23 | His pick up and throw too good for Salim Malik . |
| 24 | One could n't just get a campaign up and running overnight — although the recession bit both ways , so at least there would be space available in the media for short-term bookings . |
| 25 | Knock the bloke up and say Can you come and move your car ? |
| 26 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 27 | He hoisted the scullion up and threw the creature into the huge vat . |
| 28 | I 'll take a shorter run up and build up to it gradually . |
| 29 | I also like to view these parts of the theory as bottom up and top down . |
| 30 | Their aim was to start from the bottom up and to grow a church that would be able in the end to plant other churches . |