Example sentences of "up and [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I strode up and doffed my hat . |
| 2 | Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that . |
| 3 | Vole are vile because they dig up and eat my crocus species in spring and then hog on the ripening figs in August . |
| 4 | I might jump up and clap my hands . |
| 5 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 6 | I squeeze my way up and try my key in the battered , irregular door at the top . |
| 7 | I had moved from his shoulder , so he got up and retrieved my hat . |
| 8 | I shift myself a stair higher , so that I can reach up and stroke my son 's head . |
| 9 | Slow up and walk my pace . |
| 10 | I became conscious of where I was and what I was doing so I quickly stood up and dried my eyes . |
| 11 | He came up and touched my breast through my nightdress . |
| 12 | Bunny straightened up and took my wallet out of his back pocket . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , Mrs Tuckett spotted me and I saw recognition click into place in her mind before I had to stand up and do my bit . |
| 14 | So I get up and pull my dressing-gown on and head down to the cold , dusty lobby where the phone is . |
| 15 | Rolling my sleeves up and getting my hands dirty it 's what life is all about . |
| 16 | I was in the most exquisite kind of agony , unable to think of anything but making love to you , and then I was pushing your skirt up and getting my face slapped . |
| 17 | I weighed it all up and made my decision . ’ |
| 18 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 19 | Because my stomach come up and met my heart |
| 20 | A toddler I know refers to me as ‘ English aunt ’ — even if he does mix it up and call my male friend ‘ foreign aunt ’ too . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , when I 'm grown up and have my own place , you know , my cottage , I could ask you there , ’ Eve said earnestly . |
| 22 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 23 | There was no one around so I went up and put my nose practically against the glass . |
| 24 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 25 | I brought my face up and put my head back , baring my neck to the wind like a lover , to the rain like an offering . |
| 26 | ’ ’ I 'm sure I 'm going to leave the ground and float up and hit my head on the ceiling , and all the time the voices are call ‘ DO IT DO IT DO IT … ’ |
| 27 | Some water came up and hit my bum , and that was when the phone went . |
| 28 | I drew up and pushed my head out of the window . |
| 29 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 30 | So little Miss Schlegel will have to languish alone , ripening slowly in the California sunshine until one day I will turn up and have my way with her , quite possibly shouting , ‘ This one 's for Gloria Steinem ! ’ as I do so . |