Example sentences of "up [coord] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 2 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 3 | I was never conscious of pain , even with a torn ear , a broken nose and split lips , but I do remember occasions of desperate tiredness , and of effort to keep my hands up or stay on my feet . |
| 4 | Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity . |
| 5 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 6 | Along the top of the instrument panel are amber oil and fuel low-pressure lights and the left-to-right mechanical flap indicator ( there are five quaintly-named setting , full flap on the left , landing , take-off , climb and up or cruise at the right ) . |
| 7 | Do not forget that you live alone and there may not be anyone there to pick you up or ring for the doctor if you break a leg or a hip . |
| 8 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 9 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 10 | ‘ Just shut up and go to sleep . ’ |
| 11 | Drink the water at the spring or well , then curl up and go to sleep near the point of issue , after invoking the anima mundi . |
| 12 | I could give it up and go to Belfast . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh shut up and go to sleep , ’ she said . |
| 14 | They thought they 'd have the Mexican wave when someone go get , get up and go to the loo ! |
| 15 | And we 've got quite a bit well either that or we could watch the programme and then wash up , clear up and go to bed . |
| 16 | After blunting two ice-screws I give up and go for the peg . |
| 17 | After a minute I get up and go into my old room . |
| 18 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 19 | I mean we could go back up and go into Ashpoles and then just go down Park with er black widows and just blow the shit out of everything . |
| 20 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 21 | its really cold , yeah oh that was good , I enjoyed that she 's still there , she 's a Lance Corporal now as well and I must admit well I , I did n't think she 'd ev , she was always crying but I never thought she 'd actually do very well in the T A , did n't seem to have the get up and go about it but she obviously sorted herself out and got , Spambo Man they called me . |
| 22 | We just give up and go through the motions and we let our negativity harden inside us . |
| 23 | but here we , we never go up and go in the general by the |
| 24 | ‘ Here we have Wren Boys who dress up and go from door to door asking for money , every St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said . |
| 25 | It 's very easy for young people to come into politics , full of enthusiasm and full up of get up get up and go and many of them get up and go after a few years . |
| 26 | Then get your mask up and get into the Accident Unit ! |
| 27 | Er , a very negative form of er , of behaviour , can be , you can actually get highly directive , and start telling people , erm , we 've already identified that influences , not having that ability to tell , it 's something that people try and do it , it 's a , it 's a facade , that people put up and get behind them . |
| 28 | old Army General , line up and get in a single line |
| 29 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 30 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |