Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] up [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind the number of private nursing homes that spring up and erm , er , I mean the sort of privately run places er , presumably the local authorities have to give them a licence to run , but is there no way that it , can the Fire Service , can our officers go and make an inspection ? |
| 2 | Prince is now demanding listeners as mixed up and variegated inside as himself , and is finding that there are n't that many around . |
| 3 | Coiling ramps that corkscrewed up and down . |
| 4 | You can now move between the pages of a spreadsheet just by clicking on icons that move up and page and down a page . |
| 5 | His forearms were lying on the desk and his skinny torso was framed by a proscenium arch of ring binders , set on shelves that marched up and over his head . |
| 6 | I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up . |
| 7 | She took the material off of the wall , and all her shoes and make up and just about everything cept the big stuff . |
| 8 | Chopping wood , making bonfires , sawing logs , collecting acorns , eyeing the strawberries while patrolling up and down with his special secateurs , he appeared to one neighbour ‘ like a magic gardener in a fairy story ’ . |
| 9 | Horses which a moment before were just off the pace crashed into the leaders , tipping off their riders and running up and down the fence , preventing any of the horses following from getting over it . |
| 10 | Thinker — producing carefully considered ideas and weighing up and improving ideas from other people . |
| 11 | Things that light up and make sounds are easier to respond to . |
| 12 | affairs and stand up and recite them |
| 13 | END 'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN might have been a silly name , stupid haircuts and jump up and down like idiots but that does n't make them irrelevant . |
| 14 | END 'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN might have been a silly name , stupid haircuts and jump up and down like idiots but that does n't make them irrelevant . |
| 15 | ‘ Freedom of establishment shall include the right to take up and pursue activities as self-employed persons and to set up and manage undertakings , in particular companies or firms within the meaning of the second paragraph of article 58 , under the conditions laid down for its own nationals by the law of the country where such establishment is effected , subject to the provisions of the chapter relating to capital . ’ |
| 16 | Ludo grins and bobs up and down as if he has just unwrapped a toy train set . |
| 17 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 18 | Radio , in general , became par excellence the medium used while doing something else , mainly housework , preparing and eating meals and getting up or ready for bed . |
| 19 | This is the music playing in a thousand thousand houses while we have our drinks and eat our meals and stand up and shout . |
| 20 | His eyes were small black sentries that marched up and down , and his hands were bunches of bananas unsold over the week-end . |
| 21 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 22 | They grasped hands and pumped up and down , and Mary Rose picked her way through the muddy forecourt and approached , her smile at the ready . |
| 23 | but she said , oh she said , they and that , they rented the horses that go up and down you know |
| 24 | She was tall and big-boned , with strong , thick legs , and big breasts that jounced up and down as she walked . |
| 25 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |
| 26 | The final insult came when one player stripped to his underpants and ran up and down the aisles . |
| 27 | If I can just reach the horses and reach up and untether them , I believe we could be off and down the road and the creature would never catch up with us . |
| 28 | Girls were encouraged to ask for help , play with dolls , take an interest in clothes and dressing up and stay close to parents and discouraged from being noisy and playing rough games . |
| 29 | Maybe Faust liked the Marquee 's decor , a strictly black-painted warren with — in time-honoured fashion — toilet facilities that backed up and flooded the floor with rivers of lager piss . |
| 30 | Used to do it down there and we used to get stones that blew up and poinged everywhere ! |