Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she stands up and crosses to the other armchair . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | GUIL stands up and looks over the audience . ) |
| 4 | It seems not , for Philip Swallow immediately removes his hand , stands up and moves to the window . ’ |
| 5 | ( Max gets up and sits on the edge of his bed and smokes a pipe . |
| 6 | Howard gets up and walks about the room with his coffee , smiling , and taking care not to fall over the furniture . |
| 7 | She gets up and works on the screws pinning the legs of the bed to the floor . |
| 8 | A classic problem is posed by asking what form radiant energy takes up when confined in a container ( or cavity , to use the time-hallowed language of statistical physics ) whose walls are black . |
| 9 | After a time ( or if disturbed ) this living globe breaks up and disappears like a rain of silver back into the depths of the sea . |
| 10 | This research project follows up and expands on a series of points made in the author 's PhD thesis , History as a Discipline in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 1848-1914 ( Cambridge , 1983 ) and is based primarily on archival research . |
| 11 | Doubles up and screams with a hot , flushed face and sweat . |
| 12 | Suppose , however , that the superficial injury swells up and develops into an incapacitating leg wound . |
| 13 | She inches to the edge of the bed , he follows ; she lies on her back , his hand attempts to part her furiously dry lips ; she wraps herself in the sheet , the tense warmth of his body suffocates her doubly ; she leaps up and goes to the lavatory , he watches her through the glass wall . |
| 14 | The entrance has a central panel with twin one way zips so it rolls up and fastens at the top to give easy access . |