Example sentences of "up [coord] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 2 | When Stuart and I heard this we got up and looked for the nearest exit . |
| 3 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 4 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 5 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 6 | Then , as one nome , they gave up and ran for it , fighting their way through the scrub and grass , skidding on stones , elbows going up and down like pistons . |
| 7 | Quickly , I picked myself up and ran for my life through the trees . |
| 8 | I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker . |
| 9 | I polished off the lager , put my feet up and waited for the editorial meeting . |
| 10 | Her father came up and listened for a while and then said that he thought it was all marvellous but he did n't understand a word of it . |
| 11 | Reluctantly she picked it up and listened for a moment . |
| 12 | At one o'clock Rachaela ate lunch , and at five past two , half an hour too late , she got up and left for the antiques shop . |
| 13 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 14 | ‘ Navan ! ’ called the driver , and I jumped up and reached for my bag . |
| 15 | Jackie stood up and reached for the bottle . |
| 16 | He stood up and reached for his dressing gown . |
| 17 | I scrambled up and reached for the eject button on the cassette deck . |
| 18 | The Doctor hauled himself up and reached for the tank 's hyper reverse facility . |
| 19 | He stood up and reached for his hat . |
| 20 | He got up and reached for the phone . |
| 21 | Then suddenly she got up and made for the piano . |
| 22 | When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter . |
| 23 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 24 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 25 | as they reached up and felt for the fruit . |
| 26 | Sara sat up and felt for her dressing-gown . |
| 27 | Not daring to put on the light , she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table . |
| 28 | The partner there was terribly embarrassed , rang me up and apologized for hours afterwards , could n't get him off the phone . |
| 29 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 30 | Leonora contemplated argument , abandoned it , and , without taking the hand , got up and started for the stairs on leaden feet , full of foreboding about the night ahead . |