Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary commented on people who arrive here having torn up or got rid of their documents on the aeroplane . |
| 2 | However , the exclusivity of the evening did n't cut any ice with the police , who promptly ordered them to shut up or get charged with disturbing the peace … |
| 3 | Published diaries which record a day-to-day chronology of events may not be the most coherent of records , but they do not suffer from being over-edited , tidied up or altered to fit into hindsight . |
| 4 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 5 | ‘ They could n't , surely , have been arguing about him repeatedly popping up and wanting to talk to her . |
| 6 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 7 | I just picked it up and got rid of it . |
| 8 | The gasman had told us it would blow up and had stuck on a waning sign to remind us . |
| 9 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 10 | Other guests now rose to leave and the two English envoys got up and began to move amongst the different groups . |
| 11 | He stood up and began prowling around the room , touching objects , focusing his attention on anything but her . |
| 12 | When , immediately afterwards , he jumped up and began to rush round the room in a strange wild dance , we all stared at him in great surprise . |
| 13 | When the sun set , the travellers woke up and began to prepare for their journey . |
| 14 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 15 | She gave the back of her chair a despairing slap , got up and began pacing to and fro , jerkily shaking clasped hands . |
| 16 | She got up and began walking round the kitchen , collecting a dirty cup here , a saucer there , putting them in the sink . |
| 17 | Claire stood up and began walking around the room , idly picking up one of the many calculators lying around , her hand trailing over the volumes of books on the shelves . |
| 18 | He stood up and began to run along the deck . |
| 19 | And she got up and began to run across the room to her mother . |
| 20 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 21 | Looking up , he saw me , and at once jumped up and ran crying in terror into the bushes ! |
| 22 | Then followed the 4500 , the first ribbing attachment — which worked on some days and not on others ( on the latter I would give up and stop knitting for the day ! ) . |
| 23 | Tom got up and went to sit beside her . |
| 24 | He got up and went to stand by the tall , ornate fireplace where a fire had now been lit for the cooler evening to come . |
| 25 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 26 | Boxing Day , like all Boxing Days , was a day of clearing up and trying to get through left-overs . |
| 27 | Amass of red hair is pinned up and left to fall in wayward waves high on the head . |
| 28 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 29 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 30 | So nice that it would be quite awful if Mr Evans were to turn up and start shouting at him . |