Example sentences of "up and [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the show was over her dog would get up and run to the kitchen ready to receive his daily rations . |
| 2 | When I slept I would dream that one came , and drove on past without knowing I was here ; then I would wake up and run to the road looking for a tail light disappearing . |
| 3 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 4 | Benstede got up and crossed to the bed in the far comer . |
| 5 | Merrill got up and crossed to the stationery cupboard . |
| 6 | But somehow the little orphan survived the ordeal , as she also later survived the farce of being crated up and flown to the Mara game reserve when still only six months old , to be shown to the Pope . |
| 7 | As a result various sites of former industrial activities have been taken over , cleaned up and displayed to the public in order to show what a real industrial area was never like . |
| 8 | An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies . |
| 9 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 10 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 11 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 12 | The mare started to track up and softened to the bit . |
| 13 | Pauline has got up and walked to the bathroom . |
| 14 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 15 | This is the key to the continuing popularity of the event : it accommodates , equally , the ambitions of family crews , business men and women who have sold up and taken to the oceans , retired couples and racing skippers in search of another rosette . |
| 16 | Cullam got up and wandered to the window . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing would surprise me , ’ Steiner said , stood up and paced to the wall . |
| 18 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 19 | Hector ! ’ he was crying as he was dragged up and set to an oar . |
| 20 | Move across , up and left to a rock ledge . |
| 21 | Subjects not studied at school can be taken up and pursued to an advanced level . |
| 22 | It could be picked up and thrown to the ground below , but this would be incredibly dangerous . |