Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dropped the sponge and stood up , lost in concentration , her mouth slack , as all the sickening implications of this sudden thought bulldozed their way into her brain . |
| 2 | It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores . |
| 3 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 4 | KILLER and GET UP AND BE SOMEBODY . |
| 5 | I remember seeing the red card and looking up , there was 30,000 people jeering and I could see my dad in the front row of the directors ’ box . |
| 6 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 7 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 8 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 9 | They found their usual post at the pond and set up their gear ; it was hot and very humid , they were near the gated level crossing on the old trackbed . |
| 10 | The Champagne houses were naturally outraged at the government 's ineptitude and drew up a vociferous protest , signed by eighty participants , condemning the publicity given to the ministerial communiqué . |
| 11 | It was during one of these that he was spotted by a talent scout and signed up by Warner Brothers . |
| 12 | Alan took him back into his bedroom and walked up and down with him mechanically , trying to soothe him . |
| 13 | She crossed the bedroom and picked up the cigar and put it back on the table . |
| 14 | A long and heart-felt kiss was interrupted by the phone and I hurried back into the bedroom and picked up the extension in time to hear Ed Grainger . |
| 15 | It lost speed and pulled up outside the kiosk with a squeal of brakes . |
| 16 | Initial priorities would be projects strengthening the infrastructure , privatization , reforming the financial sector , developing a productive and competitive private sector , restructuring industry , encouraging direct foreign investment and cleaning up the environment . |
| 17 | Since the investment made in companies owning fishing vessels flying the flag of a member state by nationals of another member state was direct investment and paid up in full , the condition requiring 75 per cent . |
| 18 | An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to company insolvency and winding up ( including the winding up on companies that are not insolvent , and of unregistered companies ) ; enactments relating to the insolvency and bankruptcy of individuals ; and other enactments bearing on those two subject matters , including the functions and qualification of insolvency practitioners , the public administration of insolvency , the penalisation and redress of malpractice and wrongdoing , and the avoidance of certain transactions at an undervalue . |
| 19 | Manolo flicked a switch and brought up the other figure . |
| 20 | About 50 old Somervillians met in the library of the University Women 's Club to be welcomed by the A.S.M. President and brought up to date on Somerville news by the Principal . |
| 21 | The only break in his 115-Test career came during the 1984–85 home series against England , where an unwise stroke against Pat Pocock in the second match at New Delhi triggered an Indian collapse and set up an England victory . |
| 22 | Some hoping to escape evidently pretended to lie dead , ‘ like rabbits ’ , but sooner or later lost their nerve and bounded up to regain their trenches , only to be picked off by Campana 's men , who found the spectacle rather diverting . |
| 23 | After all the sniggering and playing up of our away record , you might have though SOME mention might have been in order ? ? |
| 24 | Genies and lamps , Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves , and Sinbad the Sailor all come out of that civilisation and end up singing Neighbours down at theatres across the land . |
| 25 | In the UK in the year to come , Joe Public will continue to pay the price ( perhaps with his life ) until he is a better citizen and stands up and protests enough about it . |
| 26 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 27 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 28 | As a response to popular demands for greater democracy , Habyarimana in November announced plans to abandon one-party rule and set up a review commission , whose brief was to make recommendations on the country 's future political system . |
| 29 | The reviewer of the programme in Sydsvenska Dagbladet the next day drew a parallel with ‘ the horrible murder and cutting up of a prostitute , Catrin da Costa , in Stockholm a couple of years ago ’ . |
| 30 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |