Example sentences of "up and [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Although projects for the reform of the courts were being drawn up and had in some cases been completed , " the date of their publication can not yet be predicted with any certainty " .
2 Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago .
3 They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there .
4 I then got up and went into another room , where I found the father Delavaud , still clothed , and lying on the bed , dead .
5 And could n't stand up and went like this !
6 Starting at the airman 's feet he moved up and raved at each disaster until he came to his head .
7 Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’
8 ‘ Well , you ca n't do that here , ’ said the Dormouse crossly , and he got up and moved to another seat .
9 Under the law of a number of member states ( though not the UK ) , transfer of central management and control from the state of registration is only possible if the company is wound up and reincorporated in another member state .
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