Example sentences of "up and [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |
| 2 | At three o'clock in the morning you could look up and their windows were blazing with light . |
| 3 | He sat up and their eyes met . |
| 4 | While we 're on the subject , 4AD are anxious to point out that the PIXIES are not splitting up and their album should be ready for next year , too . |
| 5 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 6 | Cora-Beth 's head shot up and her expression was full of anxiety . |
| 7 | Reluctantly she got up and her teeth chattered as she took a dressing gown from a hook behind the bedroom door . |
| 8 | Sophia 's face seemed to light up and her tone to brighten . |
| 9 | One eye 's all red and swelled up and her lip 's been split . |
| 10 | When Tucker caught up , Delia Sutherland was standing with her hands up and her back to him , saying , ‘ George ? |
| 11 | Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile . |
| 12 | But when she was over here , she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time . |
| 13 | In Pakistan , ‘ if you see a girl with her Dupatta pushed up and her limbs in a relaxed position , standing and talking to boys , people passing will go on staring and start whispering among themselves — ‘ Where is her modesty ! ’ or , ‘ what is going on there ! ’ |
| 14 | When the arms reached up and her head bent to the face , for the first time she kissed and was kissed . |
| 15 | Sally with her slaves rolled up and her hands black with ashes from the dead fire . |
| 16 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 17 | Just for a moment she looked up and her eyes met his , wide , unguarded , and she felt his fingers tighten . |
| 18 | It was n't until later when she was helping her mother to wash up and her father was still outside with Jennifer that Rachel had the opportunity to explain the situation . |
| 19 | In the evenings , after tea was cleared away and washed up and her aunt had tucked Victoria into her cot , Melanie sat in the kitchen and read her own old books . |
| 20 | Caro washed up and her mother dried , making her usual little jokes about how Carolyn could n't dry because she must have forgotten where everything went , by now . |
| 21 | She looked up and her face was only just under control , balanced on the edge of screaming . |
| 22 | Today I wake up and what operation between peoples . |
| 23 | He did not spell out what was meant by a limited period , but he will have to tell Hon. Members how long employees will be covered by TOPS before the Minister winds it up and what chance employees or their representatives will have to influence the outcome of negotiations on the way in which the scheme is to be wound up . |
| 24 | Subsequently , it authorises its splitting up and its transfer to other people 's banks . |
| 25 | ‘ We are ’ he said later , ‘ in danger of building so many mills and factories on the river 's bank … that the stream will be all used up and its bed dry . ’ |
| 26 | A Working Party to review the Institute 's international role has been set up and its work is nearing completion . |
| 27 | In the event this last had to satisfy them , for although they reached Gilsland village unannounced , they found its castle effectively beyond their reach , its gatehouse guarded , its drawbridge up and its portcullis down , Dacre presumably a man of caution . |
| 28 | The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] … |
| 29 | Many hours later — she had lost all track of time and had fallen asleep — she had again been roughly shaken as her hiding-place was opened up and its contents removed . |
| 30 | The hen was taken out of the cage , held up and its throat cut . |