Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a spoon up and get her to take her medicine . |
| 2 | I rang Gerard up and said I think I 'm going to condense your typeface and he said yes , yes , condense it by seven percent , I do n't mind , which I thought |
| 3 | Well , Right love we 'll inform you know we just phone up and let them know what 's happened . |
| 4 | I think we 'd have to ring them up and let them know what we 're doing . |
| 5 | A waiter came up and made him put it on again . |
| 6 | She looked up and made herself meet his eyes . |
| 7 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 8 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 9 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 10 | ‘ What if the beast had woken up and found you taking his food ? ’ |
| 11 | right , two things first of all I mean I think this is the first one and once Napier get it up and running I think it 's exportable |
| 12 | ring me up and asking I understand you Anyway to cut a long story short , he was basically saying well do you know of any computers ? |
| 13 | A place that people come up and give you double your washing powder , where , when you wear a certain pair of shoes , your sports performance will reach the dizzy heights of your professional heroes , where everyone has perfect teeth . |
| 14 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |