Example sentences of "[to-vb] up and [vb infin] [pos pn] " 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 | It was some time before she could gather her forces sufficiently to stand up and rest her hands on the chill white plaster of the window embrasure . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , Mrs Tuckett spotted me and I saw recognition click into place in her mind before I had to stand up and do my bit . |
| 4 | Was it a game where you had numbers and you had to stand up and say your number ? |
| 5 | Miranda began , again , addressing herself to the young girl , ‘ While I 'm getting ready , would you like to come up and see my room ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'll have to come up I 'll have to come up and see your |
| 7 | I got up and went back down to the kitchen to lock up and get my gear , then I went to the bathroom . |
| 8 | She looked up at him , wanting to reach up and stroke his face . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards . |
| 11 | Then Bjorn Again say ‘ thanks ’ in accents that make them sound like the chef out of The Muppet Show , and an Australian voice tells us to hurry up and spend our money on tickets for their next gig in Manchester , which , due to overwhelming demand , is happening next week . |
| 12 | ( And failure to encourage infants to grow up and experience their own separateness and uniqueness is as much a betrayal of the concept of self as is the abandonment of support and pleasure in their developing maturity . ) |
| 13 | You 'll have to grow up and fight your corner . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Aimed at those who wish to start up and run their own small business or develop a recently started business . |
| 16 | Behind that ordinary , playful tomboy who loves to dress up and paint her face is a tough cookie , with one eye on her bank account . |
| 17 | And he looked liked really just ready to get up and do his lovely fresh face you know . |
| 18 | And never once on a Sunday morning did that man fail to get up and cook our breakfast and polish our shoes , so that we 'd go smart and good to Sunday School . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had to get up and wash her hair and urgh ! |
| 21 | Their reaction , towards the east and to the Gulf war too , has been to pay up and keep their heads down . |
| 22 | These snakes have evolved the ability to rear up and squeeze their poison glands so forcibly that the venom inside them is propelled towards their enemy as a jet or spray of droplets . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Iran 's ayatollahs , having established their own Islamic state in 1979 , sought to spread the Islamic word , urging militant factions in Arab countries to rise up and overthrow their traditional , often repressive , rulers . |
| 25 | On Sept. 5 in a television broadcast he called on the people of Egypt and Saudi Arabia to rise up and overthrow their governments ; on Sept. 10 he made an offer to supply oil free to Third-World countries . |
| 26 | When they persisted in calling on Iraq 's Shia majority to rise up and overthrow his Sunni-based regime , he was forced into war . |