Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Game Genie gadget allows players to change the rules , speed up or slow down the action . |
| 2 | If the law says that you must be compensated for any damage suffered , your neighbour will either have to pay up or cut back the tree . |
| 3 | Without a moment 's delay Aunt Tossie got up and sailed down the long room , the ends of her boa floating out behind her , careless majesty in her gait . |
| 4 | Jenkins , just too old for combat , was the only groom left at Brougham , but he was already up and mucking out the boxes , for he still had six horses to do . |
| 5 | Mad Eric has personalised his scum top by wearing the collar standing up and ironing down the front corners to make it look like a cravat — he now looks like Victorian Dad out of Viz. Berk . |
| 6 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 7 | Once more , the familiar is comfortable and supportive , but do n't neglect to get up and walk around the building — or better still , around the block — from time to time , to stimulate the supply of oxygen to the brain . |
| 8 | I 'd sat on my palliasse writing notes , watching Selma plait her hair , trying to decide when to get up and walk down the inlet far enough to be out of sight in order to go to the loo . |
| 9 | George grew bored and picked fern leaves , stripping them , only leaving the stem , then he stood up and walked back the way they had come . |
| 10 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |
| 11 | He got up and ran down the rock . |
| 12 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 13 | It was too hot on the roof so she got up and slithered down the ivy into the dark , damp place at the side of the boathouse and went indoors . |
| 14 | Now I get up and walk around the kitchen table a couple of times , do a dozen stretch-and-bend exercises , then pour myself some more coffee and flop back in my chair . |
| 15 | An elderly Indian woman in a sari is closing up and bringing down the grated gate . |
| 16 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 17 | Agnes did not make the mistake now of asking her customer how much he intended to spend on the acid drops ; she reached up and took down the jar and , tilting it , tipped some acid drops into the scale ; then , putting the glass lid back onto the jar , she returned the whole to the shelf before once again blowing into a small paper bag and depositing the sweets inside . |
| 18 | Joe stood up and came down the table towards Harriet Shakespeare . |
| 19 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 20 | I got the woman who comes in to clean the hall and stairs to go up and wash off the floors but I have n't been up there myself since the fuzz left . |
| 21 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 22 | She re-read his covering note again , picking up and turning over the other enclosed letter in her hands . |
| 23 | Nelson 's had just issued a short book of mine on Turkey , and he scrutinized it with care , holding it high up and bending back the spine as if to test its durability . |
| 24 | The organizer tells a story and , when a couple 's word is mentioned , they jump up and run down the outside of the teams , back to the other end jumping over the legs and then back to their seats . |
| 25 | And we all used to climb up and fall over the top anyway . |
| 26 | agreed to take to set up and take down the stall and be there for most of the day . |
| 27 | Emyr has built it all up and put back the roof . |
| 28 | It pulls up and rounds out the corners of its mouth , and chomps its teeth together rapidly in an obsequious manner , as if it is saying : ‘ Do n't hurt me , I 'm only a baby ! ’ |
| 29 | Because I enjoy bathing , washing up and hosing down the car , the concept appealed to me . |
| 30 | As Kalchu and I and some of the other men set out for home , they started to gather it up and hack off the dead branches that jut out from pine-trunks like thin stumps of arms . |