Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] up [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she did like was a roundabout where you went up and down gradually as over waves , in a car that swung slightly but did n't turn . |
| 2 | ‘ This is n't The Paul Daniels Magic Show where they get up and walk away . ’ |
| 3 | where they come up and Om in harmony |
| 4 | Individuals and small parties join together in the open water outside the kelp beds , where they swim up and down as if trying to get the courage to attempt the last lap . |
| 5 | He married a girl from the Co Down town where he grew up and went to school . |
| 6 | Where it breaks up and makes eddies , turbulence . |
| 7 | . Or it stands up or you know you you go and put it in the cupboard , and all of a sudden there 's a there 's a there 's a face looking at you , you know . |
| 8 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |
| 9 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 10 | I felt a sharp stab in my head so I reached up and found a piece of hay stuck in my hair , it must have come from the farm . |
| 11 | He looked all in and was almost asleep , so I got up and patted his shoulder very gently . |
| 12 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 13 | I 'm real stiff from lying on the bench , so I get up and stretch . |
| 14 | It 's too cold to sit around for long , so I get up and walk onto the bridge . |
| 15 | I decide I am shivering because I am cold , so I stand up and exercise . |
| 16 | Staying seated while he prowls around makes me uneasy , so I stand up and join him at the window . |
| 17 | And the little old girl he says , you got ta bear in mind , he said she 's only nine he said so she ca n't do none of that she come up and she could get her leg up , she went like this ! |
| 18 | One night she dreamed that she got up and went to the lavatory , where she found a new , neatly typed notice fixed over the bowl . |
| 19 | Once she tells us that she woke up and then that she prepared breakfast , we assume certain facts : that she got out of bed , for example . |
| 20 | No , she said that she came up and asked you if you wan na go out with Emma |
| 21 | Theodora leant back in her chair and stretched , the confines of her office dictating that she extended up and not backwards . |
| 22 | Yeah , but I thought , sounded as if they only did tho , those that you blow up and this is n't , you can put it in , in the wash or anything . |
| 23 | It 's about time that you grew up and realised that I can not possibly be dancing attendance on you every five minutes . ’ |
| 24 | And the idea is that you step up and down on those and that 's your exercise , well you can do that on the bottom of your stirs for nothing . |
| 25 | It was too hot on the roof so she got up and slithered down the ivy into the dark , damp place at the side of the boathouse and went indoors . |
| 26 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 27 | Of course , it was n't long before she was rumbled , so she packed up and returned to Scotland , taking me with her . |
| 28 | Wendy ran after her child but her spiked heels slowed her , so she gave up and came back home and made herself a cup of coffee and read the stories in the back of her magazine . |
| 29 | The alarm clock rings , so you get up and get washed ; then you get dressed ; then you have breakfast … ‘ |
| 30 | Then you start reading a book , but you ca n't get into it , so you get up and you tidy your cell again , and you read the book again , tidy your cell again , you know , just to keep your mind occupied because if you do n't … |