Example sentences of "up and [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the kids found it highly amusing when I had to climb up and fetch her . |
| 2 | It is only then that I can get up and interpose myself between his wet shirtfront and the sink , where the suds soak into my lower back . |
| 3 | In reality they should have been dumbfounded and embarrassed , wishing the floor would open up and swallow them . |
| 4 | She groaned inaudibly , and wished the deck would open up and swallow her . |
| 5 | Now she had got them she just wanted the earth to open up and swallow her . |
| 6 | Her father cleared his throat , her mother looked flustered and Rachel wished the ground would open up and swallow her . |
| 7 | ‘ When Karen broke the news of our marriage so crudely at Thomas 's party , and I saw the look on your face , I understood for the first time the force of that old cliché about wishing the floor would open up and swallow one . |
| 8 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 9 | Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you I 'll go up and collect him . |
| 11 | A willingness to stand up and promote his trade with gusto typifies Mr Smythe 's approach to his job as chairman his Association . |
| 12 | Mandeville just muttered a curse and Southgate would have launched a vitriolic attack upon the abbey if Sir Edmund had not told him to shut up and drink his wine . |
| 13 | They 'll give up and leave us to get on with some work I imagine . |
| 14 | Behind that ordinary , playful tomboy who loves to dress up and paint her face is a tough cookie , with one eye on her bank account . |
| 15 | But you remember how intense your feelings were for someone who was your whole life , and you 're afraid that your love for him is n't so much dead as lying doggo , ready to rise up and damage everything you hold dear . |
| 16 | Her entire role in life is to get pregnant by Fred , her lord and master ; to lie down between the legs of his wife Serena , who 's sterile and desperate ; to shut up and spread them . |
| 17 | Can anyone expect Mr. Kiechle to stand up and explain everything that he is looking for ? |
| 18 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 19 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 20 | And the amount of people come in , with a cigarette I have to go up and tell them that it 's a no-smoking area and they look at me as if I 'm stupid ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Er I 'd just like one to call up and tell me about their pay . |
| 24 | ‘ D' you want me to go up and tell him ? ’ |
| 25 | He dearly wished they would hurry up and tell him what to do . |
| 26 | Should she go up and tell her godmother all that had happened ? |
| 27 | ‘ A secretary will ring up and tell us a professor has people coming to lunch and so we 'll get on with that . ’ |
| 28 | He was saying he would come up and tell us how Stephen was and everything . |
| 29 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |
| 30 | And if she trod on the cracks , where the grass peered through , would they open up and engulf her and it would all be over , whatever it was ? |