Example sentences of "up and [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did bring it up and no-one knew what it was . |
| 2 | We know you will be a success in whatever new venture you take up and we wish you and your family all the best in the future . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 4 | ‘ It 's going to be very difficult against Wales because they are on the way up and we know we have got to play well to win . ’ |
| 5 | During the war years , it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now . |
| 6 | And he went and picked a yearling up and what do you think it was ? |
| 7 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 8 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 9 | A big van pulls up and they stick their stuff inside and get in , but just before they go , the man with the fog horn thing turns round and says all friendly like , ‘ Happy Christmas ’ . |
| 10 | He , he found out cos he went for , to , for a check up and they took his blood pressure . |
| 11 | The negligence aspect of it , if somebody is negligent and does n't , for example , keep the engine oil topped up and they drive their vehicle until the engine seizes , in fairness it 's not the insurance company 's responsibility to put that right if the customer has been negligent , and I do n't think any reasonable person would ask us to do that in that situation . |
| 12 | Was n't it did n't you ring them up and they said we have exams on or something ? |
| 13 | The buil the I 've rung them up and they said they 'd do it . |
| 14 | I cleared that and fixed the vice up and they said I could do that and I used the and that in their place and er then they had to quit the premises completely , did n't they ? |
| 15 | I get to the border , and I am questioned for hours , endless interrogation , and if I am travelling in a car , they open it up and they search it . |
| 16 | ‘ I take her up and they allow me to sign . |
| 17 | And erm at the end of the week she 'll come and pick it up , pick the tape up and they give you a voucher for twenty five pounds for Marks 's for doing it . |
| 18 | print them up and they do it on their own will . |
| 19 | An and they ring up and they say they 've had a cold all week and they ca n't put up with it a minute longer |
| 20 | Then the old girl turned up and him to stop him mutilating him bit more . |
| 21 | Well they , er nowhere , we did n't get them from anywhere we just used to think them up and everyone thought we were potty did n't they ? |
| 22 | An exhibitor 's put an exhibit up and everyone thinks they can beat it but when they 've gone and left their the exhibitors gone back and put a new lot up … things like that happen . |
| 23 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |
| 24 | Jamie 's mother was still up and she made us some tea . |
| 25 | My mother and I brought her up and she brought herself this low . |
| 26 | His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts . |
| 27 | Terry 's eyebrows went up and she felt herself blushing furiously . |
| 28 | I phoned her up and she said they 'd started decorating lifting the tiles off on the kitchen wall . |
| 29 | Then we got her up and she said I 'm going to be sick so I said do n't worry about it . |
| 30 | Her head came up and she looked him in the eye . |