Example sentences of "up again and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chinless looked up again and got back to the driver 's seat and headed east . |
| 2 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 3 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 4 | during the afternoon , I rang up again and said that , you know |
| 5 | Just the same , she would have been well ahead but for those policemen turning up again and wanting to ask poor Mrs Fanshawe more questions . |
| 6 | Then it all joins up again and goes back in , goes along here , so everything that goes down there , the ten amps goes through this one again , and back into the battery . |
| 7 | Repechages for the other places were rowed on Tuesday evening but yesterday 's final was cancelled when the wind blew up again and made racing out of the question . |
| 8 | Through the archway she saw Fernand jump down , open the door of the shed , then climb up again and drive in . |
| 9 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 10 | It slipped into the water , disappeared beneath the surface and , fifteen seconds later , bobbed up again and hopped back on to the rock . |
| 11 | He got up again and padded across to Abigail 's room . |
| 12 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 13 | Screw them up again and flex them out and let your feet drop to the side . |
| 14 | He did n't like the tremors that went with the addiction — the wavering match as he lit up again and spilling his tea during a work-break was embarrassing . |
| 15 | The tall man swung his hat up again and latched it onto his head . |
| 16 | She looked up again and saw Simon 's eyes were shrinking , his gaze shifting , avoiding hers . |
| 17 | He looked up again and saw that Herrick had removed the wraparound and was staring across at him . |
| 18 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 19 | He got up again and went back to the oven . |
| 20 | Edward looked up again and stared into my frown . |
| 21 | But a moment later he was up again and had thrust his head over the back of the board . |
| 22 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |
| 23 | We climbed up again and rolled down a second time , Mom sighing and giggling again , again . |
| 24 | Minutes later the band strikes up again and leads the parade off the square . |
| 25 | Later , some of it would be loaded up again and taken north to trade for salt . |
| 26 | The novel The Distant Lands , which he began twenty years later , abandoned , then took up again and finished in 1987 — a 52-year gestation ! — is dedicated ‘ to the memory of my mother , daughter of the South ’ . |
| 27 | People would get up , go to the opposite end of the room , jig about , go back to their seat ( or , better still , someone else 's ) , get up again and jog round the perimeter of the hall . |
| 28 | I 've got up again and put on G.P. 's clavichord record . |
| 29 | After courtship and copulation they split up again and have no further relations until the next season . |
| 30 | He took his plastic tumbler up again and sipped at the wine , watching Sara over the lip of the tumbler . |