Example sentences of "up and [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He kept waking up and telling me silly things … |
| 2 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 3 | Mrs Mrs rang me up and ask me about the one |
| 4 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 5 | The title of Tie Me Up and Bind Me Robin was derived from a quote from Maid Marion in the wholly innocent 1955 series Robin Hood . |
| 6 | Someone was shouting ‘ Hurry up and help me . |
| 7 | By being chopped up and reshaped I suppose . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , someone got up and said I could n't propose throwing redcoats out of Belfast because there were n't any nowadays . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But when I spoke to Dr last week I mean he just held his hands up and said i do n't know . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So he said , our Dawn rang up and said I wonder if she did my shift on Monday . |
| 13 | Yeah I rang up and said I was n't gon na go the children . |
| 14 | And Joey rings up and said I ca n't get down . |
| 15 | I did n't know until eleven o'clock that night he rang up and said I 'm not coming home . |
| 16 | that , that way , he must of said something because Christopher phoned up and said I 'm coming down tomorrow |
| 17 | I rang Gerard up and said I think I 'm going to condense your typeface and he said yes , yes , condense it by seven percent , I do n't mind , which I thought |
| 18 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 19 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 20 | The first time she found us chatting in the yard she rushed up and dragged me away . |
| 21 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 22 | And if she came up and thought I had n't washed properly she would push my head under the water and hold it there . |
| 23 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 24 | We want to know — The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) can leap up and tell me — the House would be delighted to hear from him — how he will cover the difference between the £10 billion of extra taxation to which his party has already committed itself and the £35 billion of extra spending to which it has also committed itself ? |
| 25 | Er I 'd just like one to call up and tell me about their pay . |
| 26 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |
| 27 | Everywhere I go like he follows me know what I mean , I 'm sitting up there at one stage and he , he 'd spend a day sort of curls , curls up and cuddles me . |
| 28 | What if , like my poor neighbour , I was to be so riddled with cancer , that after cutting me open , they just sewed me up and sent me home ? |
| 29 | I thought back over all the good times — all the laughs we had shared — and all the wonderful things they had done to try to build me up and keep me going . |
| 30 | Just shut up and let me get the fuck on with it . |