Example sentences of "[noun] up and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | She picked Mo up and he dived inside the neck of her dress , scratching her , and then lying quiet in the place he liked best , curled just above her waist and held securely by her belt . |
2 | and anyway she rang David up and she said , she did n't say it were for Bet but she said she wanted another two hundred pounds |
3 | She picked four kids up and you know right at end here where it 's that criss-cross ? |
4 | ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time . |
5 | And erm at the end of the week she 'll come and pick it up , pick the tape up and they give you a voucher for twenty five pounds for Marks 's for doing it . |
6 | The hotel is ideal for mountain and country walking , situated some 5200 feet up and we recommend guests bring strong walking shoes and something warm for the cooler evenings . |
7 | He , he found out cos he went for , to , for a check up and they took his blood pressure . |
8 | And er I 've got to go back next week for a sort of check up and I mean I suppose that 'll continue for weeks to come . |
9 | And we tidied those areas up and we went round and said right , the people with the problem areas , take 'em round and show them . |
10 | I 'll do a , I 'll do a draft letter this afternoon , you can have a look at it , erm we 'll knock a plan up and her get the addresses and then that 's it 's easy then in n it ? |
11 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
12 | Got all this stuff to type up and I 'd forgotten my typewriter . |
13 | His change of bank with the same g sends his nose up and he climbs into a barrel roll . |
14 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
15 | ‘ I tried to stay but they said they were paying my contract up and I had no option . |
16 | The stove warms the tent up and we become drowsy , and oblivious to the storm outside . |
17 | Well string timbers up and you build it up , and the whole lot comes down . |
18 | I cleared that and fixed the vice up and they said I could do that and I used the and that in their place and er then they had to quit the premises completely , did n't they ? |
19 | and then er , so by half past four I just about had enough like , so five o'clock I said well for Christ sake come on open your stocking now like and waking Arthur up and he saying well I ai n't , and I said come on it 's five o'clock , alright , and by six o'clock we 're downstairs , half past six the door |
20 | Tilt your head up and you see the room 's ceiling , down and you see the floor . |
21 | My head fuzzes up and I want to be sick . ’ |
22 | Yeah , picked a rabbit up and we had to chase him , get it out of his mouth . |
23 | ‘ The own goal opened the game up and I thought it was scrappy after that . ’ |
24 | We also see that teaching will build people up and we make a small amount of time after worship for this also . |
25 | now then the E E C said this should of happened so we , we got a petition up and I thought , we got , well I did n't but the lads got over two hundred signatures and they must of been er two letters went to the Corporation and everyone was talking er critical |
26 | All I did was wash up and we did n't do anything else . |
27 | Our classroom is one floor up and we saw Julius Rottwinkle go sailing out over the garden like a Frisbee and landing with a thump in the middle of the lettuces . |
28 | ‘ Later on I took a vacation to Los Angeles and called George up and he said , ‘ What hotel are you at right now ? |
29 | The exact words , er I ca n't recall but er I talked the man out of the bed , still with his hands up and he took a few steps away from the bed . |
30 | And I was like joining the traffic trying to do my coat up and I heard this , Cathy ! |