Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] up and " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have many hobbies ( life has filled up and fanned out ) , but our main extra-curricular interest , naturally , is women 's bodies . |
| 2 | Let's hope that by the time you get this issue of Machine Knitting Monthly , the weather has cheered up and you 're thinking of summer holidays . |
| 3 | After she has paraded up and down with Gianfranco Ferré , current king of Dior , pointing out various details on his work , we look at the sketches and ask to see dress number 59 . |
| 4 | Since then the pace has picked up and , as usual , there are wild stories circulating with talk of offers , contracts and incentives . |
| 5 | The Conservative group believes the review should take place when the property market has picked up and any sale of smallholdings will get a better price . |
| 6 | By noon the sun has come up and it 's getting very warm ; the orchard appears peaceful , the sound of guns seem a long distance away . |
| 7 | Oh Norah from Compton Acres has rung up and says why spoil the arboretum lake ? |
| 8 | In Hook , Peter Pan has grown up and is now Peter Banning , a 40-year-old attorney , with a loving wife and two healthy children . |
| 9 | … has grown up and gone away , |
| 10 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 11 | He has shot up and seized his chance with both hands . |
| 12 | After about 20 minutes of use the average colour monitor has warmed up and stabilised and , at this point , Adobe suggest you adjust the colour balance so that it matches a progressive colour bar that you get from your printer . |
| 13 | Overnight the world has opened up and revealed its depth and colour . |
| 14 | Pauline has got up and walked to the bathroom . |
| 15 | Well , my get-up-and-go has got up and went . |
| 16 | When other sunsigner 's get up and go has got up and gone you 're still going strong , so take pity on a pooped pal or po-fagged partner and ease up a little Tuesday . |
| 17 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 18 | Ramesh K , who took on the lease two years ago , has sold up and moved out . |
| 19 | It 's a bit like one of the old Decca moving-map displays , but one that has packed up and lost interest in the proceedings . |
| 20 | Even Motown has packed up and gone to California . |
| 21 | The irony is that the Labour government has set up and funded handsomely a Royal Commission on Social Policy which will make its report at the end of 1988 . |
| 22 | In many countries , the industry has set up and funded organisations which work on these issues full-time . |
| 23 | Just like the other doctors , it has scrubbed up and donned a protective gown before starting work in Sacramento , California . |
| 24 | After a boom , inflation has gone up and there has been a disastrous showing on the balance of payments . |
| 25 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 26 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 27 | My hard disk has blown up and I 've lost that 5,000 word report . |
| 28 | The telephone rang at that moment ; Rachel answered it and before David had time to leave the room she said , ‘ There 's been an accident in the canteen — a boiler has blown up and two of the staff have been scalded . ’ |
| 29 | The fluctuations in Scottish support for political nationalism would suggest that the sense of Scottish identity , separateness from the English and resentment against England , has bounced up and down quite unsystematically since the last war . |
| 30 | It is after Zacchaeus has stood up and said to God , ‘ Listen , sir ! |