Example sentences of "[to-vb] up and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A willingness to stand up and promote his trade with gusto typifies Mr Smythe 's approach to his job as chairman his Association . |
| 2 | She looked up at him , wanting to reach up and stroke his face . |
| 3 | Delight ran all over her at his use of her name , and she wanted to reach up and take his face between her hands and say , ‘ You are beautiful and strong and gentle . |
| 4 | They simply told my father to hurry up and put his jacket on . |
| 5 | Mandeville just muttered a curse and Southgate would have launched a vitriolic attack upon the abbey if Sir Edmund had not told him to shut up and drink his wine . |
| 6 | And he looked liked really just ready to get up and do his lovely fresh face you know . |
| 7 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 8 | Nothing can be more daunting for a beginner than to step up and smash his fist or foot through a neatly arranged stack of wood or tiles , but that is only because his mind constructs a barrier . |
| 9 | When they persisted in calling on Iraq 's Shia majority to rise up and overthrow his Sunni-based regime , he was forced into war . |