Example sentences of "up and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 2 | King Crimson was being partied by a signing label and they got up and played with Donovan . |
| 3 | Then Robert Topping , the Conservative Chief Agent , drew up and presented to Chamberlain a memorandum saying that ‘ from practically all quarters ’ he heard the view that the leader ought to go . |
| 4 | The list had been drawn up and presented to Cristiani by the independent Truth Commission , with responsibility under the peace agreement for ascertaining who was responsible for human rights violations during the civil war ( 1980-1991 ) . |
| 5 | Records of membership , subscriptions and payments had to be kept , and at times of dispute , petitions and other statements of grievances were drawn up and presented from at least the beginning of the eigh-teenth century . |
| 6 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 7 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 8 | A list of deadlines and responsibilities was drawn up and agreed between the two departments and this has led to a better understanding of each others tasks and the benefits of compliance . |
| 9 | A timetable covering the completion of our work and of the transaction under the terms of the engagement will be drawn up and agreed between the directors and us by [ date ] . |
| 10 | The matter was raised in the meeting of the Land and Properties Sub-Committee 14 January 1992 ( LP 4 ) where it was resolved to offer the land for sale by open tender on condition that the purchaser submits a detailed planning application for one detached dwelling based on plans already drawn up and agreed by the planning officer as acceptable . |
| 11 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 12 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 13 | In fact he had lost his nerve and was too shy to go up and knock on the door . |
| 14 | Franco made clear what those choices were in a " National Programme for Resurgence " which he personally drew up and passed to his ministers for action in October 1939 . |
| 15 | President , delegates , when this resolution was drawn up and passed by my branch at the latter part of nineteen ninety two , we understood the text of Chancellor Lamont 's Autumn Statement regarding public sector workers and a ceiling of one point five per cent on pay increases starting in nineteen ninety three . |
| 16 | The concrete slabs were taken up and replaced with a crazy paving patio , and gradually they developed their plans , as money allowed . |
| 17 | It had been decided in July 1944 that the Cabinet Committee on post-War Civil Aviation should be wound up and replaced by a Minister responsible specifically for this area of policy . |
| 18 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 19 | It 's impossible ! she exclaimed to herself , getting up and leaning on the rough stone windowsill . |
| 20 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 21 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |
| 22 | A US Senate subcommittee survey of 1975 reports the case of a seventeen-year-old Detroit schoolgirl who was awarded massive damages after being beaten up and stabbed with pencils by thirty girl classmates who apparently resented that she was more attractive than they and received better grades . |
| 23 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 24 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 25 | ‘ She still had the four walls , ’ said Scarlet , ‘ and things to dust and wash up and hide from burglars . |
| 26 | He stands up and taps on the table for silence , intending to announce this new discovery , in the hope that it will cause yet more laughter , and increase his reputation for honesty still further . |
| 27 | ‘ Just shut up and go to sleep . ’ |
| 28 | Drink the water at the spring or well , then curl up and go to sleep near the point of issue , after invoking the anima mundi . |
| 29 | I could give it up and go to Belfast . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh shut up and go to sleep , ’ she said . |