Example sentences of "up and [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was to phone him up and arrange to meet him . |
| 2 | Now shut up and stop insulting my staff . ’ |
| 3 | where 's your shoe ? you 've lost your shoe , oh is that it ? , there it is , put your feet down , let's have your shoe back on , you put your foot rest up and stop clanging it please |
| 4 | In a fiery Commons exchange , Mr Major replied : ‘ When will you start talking this country up and stop talking it down ? |
| 5 | A man came up and offered to buy him a drink . |
| 6 | She went over and helped him up and offered to buy him breakfast which , after a lot of persuasion , he accepted . |
| 7 | And on the very day when she had woken up and decided to divorce him , to celebrate the fact that she finally had a life of her own ; a life which did n't include Julius Landor . |
| 8 | When they had all finished Mike stood up and said thank you to everybody for coming . |
| 9 | Well then yo , you should have rung her up and said did he break in the caravan ? |
| 10 | up and said have you got another blades , th the blades have gone ? |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't take it , huh ? ’ she teased , then yelped and began laughing helplessly as he yanked her up and rolled to hold her captive beneath him . |
| 12 | Suddenly he leapt up and began to push his way violently across the great burrow . |
| 13 | She drew herself up and began fluttering her ragged eyelashes , like an old actress living in her past glory . |
| 14 | When she was fully rested they ate a meagre meal , conserving their supplies of meat and berries for the arduous journey ahead , then mounted up and began to pick their way carefully through the snow tracks in the wood . |
| 15 | When he lowered Grainne on to the pile of thick fur rugs before the fire , he was trembling , but when he stood up and began to unfasten his own clothes , he did so with a calm sureness and a gentle authority . |
| 16 | The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin . |
| 17 | Miss Ellis stood up and began to button her coat . |
| 18 | And gradually the school declined , until she had to give it up and retire to end her days in the white cottage with the inevitable cat as her only companion . |
| 19 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 20 | She said how glad she was they had somewhere nice to stay and that she hoped they were being good and making their beds and helping with the washing up and remembering to clean their teeth . |
| 21 | This rock thing baffles me , especially when people reach up and try to touch your hand . |
| 22 | ‘ This is to ensure that your ex does n't send in the tape after you split up and try to invade your right to privacy . ’ |
| 23 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 25 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 26 | The principles on which recovery and success have been based are those which , like so many others , I first began to understand for myself when I was growing up and trying to make my own way in the world . |
| 27 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 28 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 29 | Stripped , tied up and left to freeze It sounds like torture — and it is for some young workers forced to endure outdated initiation rites . |
| 30 | I think she had a feeling I might suddenly leap up and start slapping her around . |