Example sentences of "up and [verb] us [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd get our demands because anything was done to shut us up and get us out of their offices . |
| 2 | He was saying he would come up and tell us how Stephen was and everything . |
| 3 | Coventry ( again ) were playing West Brom , West Brom were below us and had to beat coventry to stay up and send us down . |
| 4 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 5 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 6 | The time flew by and the coach came to pick us up and take us home . |
| 7 | Instead I concluded he was about as frightened of death as I am so why , in the good Lord 's name , did he get up and bore us stiff telling us different ? |
| 8 | She kept calling me up and following us around . |
| 9 | Come up and see us sometime . |
| 10 | There was , I remember , quite a restful interlude up some alley or other , during which we reclined panting on a heap of cardboard boxes ; then two young men jovially gathered us up and escorted us back into the action . |