Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the brontosaurs , and a stegosaur , could rear up and feed tripodally . |
| 2 | The scriptwriters should take note of our FUN FORTNIGHT include a few more comical characters who can lighten up and shake off all these severe scenarios . |
| 3 | You 'll clam up or walk away as soon as it gets to be too personal . ’ |
| 4 | I often feel like I could pack up and go home for a holiday in Ireland . |
| 5 | ‘ Another job well done , Ralph , let's pack up and head back to the station . ’ |
| 6 | When the iron ore was worked out the township including the school would pack up and move on . |
| 7 | This was a test of how fast the regiment could pack up and move out to its battle positions , and was supposed to come as a big surprise , but Maxim knew how easy it was to predict . |
| 8 | If the time has come when Virgin needs a union for people 's grievances to be redressed and their rights upheld , then it would almost not be worth me going on , and I will pack up and get out . ’ |
| 9 | She resists being fed because she is afraid that she will swell up and become too big for her coffin . |
| 10 | The trouble comes when people get too enthusiastic and do n't warm up or train enough . |
| 11 | We do n't dress up and go out dancing . |
| 12 | You could dress up or strip down to sports gear , lycra , leather , rubber , jock-straps , uniforms , work gear , torn jeans , boots , socks … |
| 13 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 14 | So another generation can grow up an gu long |
| 15 | He thought you 'd give up and go away , as the woman who was supposed to be writing the book did . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's only doing his job and pretty soon he 'll give up and go away . |
| 17 | He was not reading the district well this evening , he might as well give up and go home . |
| 18 | Thinking that if he ignored her , did n't show even a whisper of interest in her , she would give up and go home under her own steam , thereby allowing her to rescue some of her dignity . |
| 19 | Let's give up and go back downstairs . ’ |
| 20 | Why do n't you just give up and go back down to London ? |
| 21 | Eventually he 'd give up and walk away , his grey beard moving up and down as he mumbled to himself , the words spilling out of his almost toothless mouth . |
| 22 | Fitting the right lock in the right place will make a thief think twice — he might give up and move on to easier targets . |
| 23 | So that when they come to assessment in the Upper School … they can actually analyse and rationalize why things work and why they do n't , why they should change direction , why they should give up and start again , and why they should logically follow the piece through . |
| 24 | ‘ We might as well give up and die right here . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You were saying we might as well give up and die right here , ’ said Granny Morkie helpfully . |
| 26 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 27 | Maybe seven minutes had passed but she dared not wait any longer because who knew when the miners might give up and come back ? |
| 28 | By marginal he means that he does n't know whether it will clear up or become irretrievably hopeless . |
| 29 | No , we 'll have to have a look tomorrow they 'd better hurry up and eat though had n't they ? |
| 30 | you 're not going without me I said you 'd better hurry up and get bloody dressed then had n't you ? |