Example sentences of "down and [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins , together with the props . |
| 2 | I put my cup down and got up out of my beplushed and bedizened chair . |
| 3 | While Nails was still reading his comic , she lay down and got up twice , which had never happened before . |
| 4 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
| 5 | She put her fork down and looked up , letting the quiet wet snow alight on her face . |
| 6 | She put the phone down and looked up at Jack . |
| 7 | Shiva 's Fifth Avenue was a long , curving , treeless street that dipped steeply down and switchbacked up again , though the neighbourhood was not in general a particularly hilly place . |
| 8 | He sat back down and took up his fork again . |
| 9 | See that would have to be all darkened down that See that light bit of the wood , that 's got to be all darkened down and brought up The colours is all sort of you see , matching and that . |
| 10 | If we could get him to come in reasonably quickly you could get all that stuff down and bagged up and we could get rid of it could n't we ? |
| 11 | They leaped down and charged up the shore , yelling triumphantly . |
| 12 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 13 | Pausing only to change her dress and smooth her hair she went into the Casa Guidi , laboriously climbed the stairs and arriving in the drawing room in some distress through lack of breath , was hastily urged to sit down and put up her feet and take a dish of tea . |
| 14 | She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down . |
| 15 | He sliced round one side , then the other , removed two saucer-shaped pieces of rind from either end , made a transverse cut across the middle and gradually lifted the fruit from the peel , put it down and held up a pair of spectacles to Caterina 's face , two owl eyes of orange peel on a single stem . |
| 16 | He put the chains down and stood up . |
| 17 | Decisively she set the glass down and stood up . |
| 18 | Ma sat down and picked up her reading glasses , |
| 19 | Kathleen Lavender sat calmly down and picked up her napkin . |
| 20 | He bent down and picked up a carrier that he 'd lain on the floor . |
| 21 | There was no bus-stop as such ; there was no need : everyone in the area knew this was the place at which public transport put down and picked up . |
| 22 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 23 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 24 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 25 | She turned the music down and picked up the receiver . |
| 26 | Kate sat down and picked up her drink again . |
| 27 | The photographers reluctantly put their glasses down and picked up their cameras as the PRO , his hands daintily plucking at the collar of the mink , prepared to unveil the famous figure When every camera was in place , he whisked the coat away . |
| 28 | He put the chart down and picked up one of the books . |
| 29 | One of the apes that lived among the rooftops of the city scampered down and picked up the peel , then raced back up to his vantage point beside the eaves . |
| 30 | He went down and picked up the dangling receiver . |