Example sentences of "up and they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights would go up and they would serve tea . |
| 2 | If it started to snow , say at four o'clock , we would have what we called snowmen — and we would knock them up and they would come running to get a day 's work in the snow . |
| 3 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 4 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 5 | I think they believe that all they have to do is to turn up and they 'll beat the rest of us . |
| 6 | Yeah there 's our Action Line are doing a a bit list of bonfires and you can ring them up and they 'll tell you where to go . |
| 7 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
| 8 | it 's all in the price there , because this is what you actually get very often , you 're ringing some places up and they 'll say , oh but you you had VAT through this week . |
| 9 | you hear , in fact some folk waken up and they can feel it pulse coming up there . |
| 10 | I used to cut them all up and they used to leave me the legs , you know , the hams and the backs and they used to have a few joints off and take home and then the rest I used to lay it , put it into bacon down the cellar . |
| 11 | Their favourite eel grass supply is used up and they must turn to other sources of food — including the farmers ' cereal crops on fields inland . |
| 12 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 13 | Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording . |