Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 2 | Megan looks up but does not move . |
| 3 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 4 | The snatching is usual on full lock as the universal joint in each front drive shaft speeds up and slows down as it is not a constant velocity joint ( unlike the V8 109 and Range Rover ) . |
| 5 | How come time speeds up and slows down all at once ? |
| 6 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 7 | She hangs up and starts again . |
| 8 | Foliage just curls up and drops off . |
| 9 | GUIL gets up but has nowhere to go . |
| 10 | Oh I love the way everybody gets up and wanders out , we 'll just wait here I think . |
| 11 | Very quietly one gets up and goes noiselessly to check the bolt 's on the door . |
| 12 | ( Max gets up and takes off her turban . |
| 13 | gets up and walks off |
| 14 | Maybe I ah it opens up and goes further on . |
| 15 | It pulls up and rounds out the corners of its mouth , and chomps its teeth together rapidly in an obsequious manner , as if it is saying : ‘ Do n't hurt me , I 'm only a baby ! ’ |
| 16 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 17 | There 's Lawrence now , a left-hander , down to the rear and this one he turns away and it goes straight to short leg and erm , everybody claps up and sits there well , well fielded there by Morris at short leg . |
| 18 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 19 | This is the pot of gold at the end of every interviewer 's rainbow ; the quest for it can be so tempting that he will abandon normal argument to hammer away a la Walden at one single point until the politician gives up and gives in . |
| 20 | At night sometimes I 'm sleeping and I put me hand like that and he comes up and lays right across the back of my pillow . |
| 21 | And it was a bit like a fountain , going in different directions , you know how the water comes up and goes over . |
| 22 | fighting , yeah , well they finally get Spender and the bloke from the Sweeney and the trying to shoot him but Spender 's going that wo n't work , they do n't things like that any more cos they ca n't use shooters yeah , and then this flash guy comes up and goes so what are you gon na do |
| 23 | Then the body comes up and floats on down to us . |
| 24 | Anyone who has been walking across grassland and has nearly trodden on a hare , will know what a shock it is when the animal suddenly leaps up and darts off . |
| 25 | Sam scrambles up and wades out to the bird . |