Example sentences of "up and say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 2 | ‘ He stood up and said what they did was wrong and he may well be a marked man now . |
| 3 | Yeah , well I bought , I got the C D cheap enough , you know when I bought them that mini unit , that went just after a year , that bloody thing when it packed up , do you remember it was playing in night , in the middle of the night and my dad got up and said what pratt 's playing music , it 's his own ha |
| 4 | I think one of the , the best things a member of the royal family has done , is Prince Phillip and Prince of Wa , and Prince of Wales have actually opened their mouths up and said they 're opposed to wha a lo a lo a lot of what the present government policies are and it 's not , not before time , in my opinion ! |
| 5 | Is this when they rang up and said they 'd got cakes left ? |
| 6 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 7 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 8 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 9 | Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki … |
| 10 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 11 | And I looked up and said it 's here ! |
| 12 | One day my mum rang up and said she did n't want me to come home again and that I should go to Social Services because she was sick and tired of all the bother and everything . |
| 13 | She confirmed what you had told me about Edouard being beaten up and said she was afraid it was all because of her . |
| 14 | Rosemary came up and said she really enjoyed last night , so , that 's something . |
| 15 | And we went round this estate ca n't remember where it was and erm thought knock on the doors and se , ask people had seen it and then later in the day this woman phoned up and said she saw a couple of kids walk down the road with it and sort of ca , called them over and said oh I heard that his , his . |
| 16 | a fortnight afterwards he rung up and said his boss had sm something had smashed into his car , and he wanted a car . |
| 17 | Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’ |
| 18 | Later he rang her up and said he had embarrassed her . |
| 19 | ‘ He rang me up and said he was feeling lousy and could I look up his chart . |
| 20 | I think that Gary rang him up and said he was going to back to work , there 's only people starting work he 's giving some people some work . |
| 21 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 22 | ‘ Well , someone got up and said I could n't propose throwing redcoats out of Belfast because there were n't any nowadays . |
| 23 | But the business we got from it wo n't be big , one lady rang up and said I heard about you on Radio York . |
| 24 | But when I spoke to Dr last week I mean he just held his hands up and said i do n't know . |
| 25 | My mother and father were there and the doctor came up and said I would have to go into the Royal Marsden in Sutton to have a scan to find out whether the cancer had spread . |
| 26 | So he said , our Dawn rang up and said I wonder if she did my shift on Monday . |
| 27 | Yeah I rang up and said I was n't gon na go the children . |
| 28 | And Joey rings up and said I ca n't get down . |
| 29 | I did n't know until eleven o'clock that night he rang up and said I 'm not coming home . |
| 30 | that , that way , he must of said something because Christopher phoned up and said I 'm coming down tomorrow |