Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that there may indeed be real risks attached to opening up and talking from the heart is not in dispute , just as the limitations on teachers ' freedom are very real . |
| 2 | An anxious young face disappeared from the window as their car drew up and parked under the dripping trees , but it was the Brigadier himself who appeared at the door to meet them . |
| 3 | I was going to jump up and look in the trailer while it was tipping . |
| 4 | She knelt up and peered through the tiny porthole . |
| 5 | Then she stands up and crosses to the other armchair . |
| 6 | He stands up and taps on the table for silence , intending to announce this new discovery , in the hope that it will cause yet more laughter , and increase his reputation for honesty still further . |
| 7 | GUIL stands up and looks over the audience . ) |
| 8 | It seems not , for Philip Swallow immediately removes his hand , stands up and moves to the window . ’ |
| 9 | He needs excellent standing balance and selective leg movements to stand up and step into the bath , and even then he may need handrails on either side for stability and safety . |
| 10 | But her assessment of my ability to stand up and shout in a crisis is pretty much a front . |
| 11 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 12 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 13 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 14 | An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies . |
| 15 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 16 | It could be picked up and thrown to the ground below , but this would be incredibly dangerous . |
| 17 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 18 | Every tiny fragment of fibre , denim and leather was picked up and dropped in the bags . |
| 19 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 20 | Each year they asked all the people to do little sketches , and as my sister and I spoke French , we thought it might be quite fun to do a kind of singing and dancing cabaret act — it was quite risqué at the time — I was fourteen — and in fact we were spotted by a talent scout who wanted us to come up and audition for a show in a London night club . |
| 21 | See about getting some people to come up and help with the harvest next week . |
| 22 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The unpaid interest is rolled up and added to the total debt . |
| 24 | Other mornings it had been rolled up and put in a plastic case within minutes of my getting out of it . |
| 25 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 26 | It had been decided in July 1944 that the Cabinet Committee on post-War Civil Aviation should be wound up and replaced by a Minister responsible specifically for this area of policy . |
| 27 | You 'll be sucked up and seduced by the beau monde , I know you will . ’ |
| 28 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 29 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 30 | Apart from a daughter who was believed to be barren he had no other near kin living and in a state of acute depression he determined to sell up and go to the Holy Land . |