Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let the silence go on , and wondered about just getting up and leaving right then without one word , not one word of the torrent foaming in her guts . |
| 2 | In her confusion , one thing stayed fixed in her mind : she would clear this lot up and go straight out to the Lock . |
| 3 | what , what I hope we 'll do next week is to , is to take that idea up and to see maybe why this policy came through erm and we 'll look at the , like the arithmetic of that as to , as to how much money there was , how much land there was in fact . |
| 4 | She lifted it up and saw that long ago the batteries had leaked and burnt the wood . |
| 5 | He had led an exciting life in boxing circles before he went away to the war and he did not consider himself to lack nerve , but the plan the little shifty-eyed character was setting out made Billy want to get up and leave right away . |
| 6 | The tramp looked up and glared maliciously back ; he was sucking on a chicken bone and the stubble of his beard glistened . |
| 7 | I had straightened up and moved aside so that the sun no longer dazzled me and I could see Sweetman properly , and what I saw I did not like . |
| 8 | When our eyes met he unfolded his arms , stood up and walked slowly over to join me . |
| 9 | He sat still for another half-hour or so , then got up and walked slowly out to the water 's edge . |
| 10 | I got up and walked quietly out into the early evening . |
| 11 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 12 | Killion stood up and walked stiffly over to Woodruffe . |
| 13 | Maybe I ah it opens up and goes further on . |
| 14 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |
| 15 | She stood up and went slowly upstairs . |
| 16 | As soon as there was a little light in the sky outside my window , I got up and went quietly down to the kitchen . |
| 17 | After the defeat of 1918 the policies of Frederick , Bismarck and Wilhelm II were to be taken up and extended quite logically ; the search for identity , for colonial holdings , the logic of industrial expansion , the ‘ question ’ of the eastern marches would all be solved and resolved in the Endlösung . |
| 18 | An eleven-year-old boy who was decidedly large and round stood up and waddled briskly forward . |
| 19 | There 's Lawrence now , a left-hander , down to the rear and this one he turns away and it goes straight to short leg and erm , everybody claps up and sits there well , well fielded there by Morris at short leg . |
| 20 | I felt that we might be able to establish peace by other means until he had grown up and become more readily identifiable as top dog by Stan . |
| 21 | I feel as if I 'll die if I stay where I am but I 'm scared to get up and go somewhere else . |
| 22 | Only when the last bullet had been fired and when Clint Eastwood had matter-of-factly and deftly dropped the six-shooter back into its holster , flicked the cheroot away and walked into the sunset , did the man in the old jacket and cords , legs dangling over the seat in front , get up and shamble slowly up the darkened aisle . |
| 23 | I hope the couple patch it up and live happily ever after . ’ |
| 24 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 25 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |
| 26 | Suddenly Pickerage looked up and spoke very loudly . |
| 27 | For a second the Duke 's eyes closed , then he straightened up and spoke very quietly . |
| 28 | What I 've told the players is we 've got to go up and play as well as we can to beat a team like Blackburn . |
| 29 | ‘ We might as well give up and die right here . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You were saying we might as well give up and die right here , ’ said Granny Morkie helpfully . |