Example sentences of "up and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other best bit about sleeping with Marie is waking up and seeing if she 's awake . |
| 2 | I think if he 's making pronouncements which are being picked up and treated as very important , and they 're only being treated as important because of his position then he should be ba , getting his facts right ! |
| 3 | But whatever you do , do not send out a general mailing and then ring up and ask whether the recipient is going to use it or not . |
| 4 | There were some weekends when he would phone me up and ask if he could come round because he 'd thought of something new for me to do , and he 'd jump into his car and come all the way just to give me a new inflection on a word ! ’ |
| 5 | But this still confirms my point , since such forms spring up and disappear as if by the act of an experimenting ( and frequently unsuccessful ) creator . |
| 6 | A sense of detachment might produce a sharper view , but he felt unreal , as if the scene he was viewing was nothing more than a backdrop at a theatre which might roll itself up and disappear when the present act was over . |
| 7 | One thing , you need to go to the bathroom or , or to get a drink , says wake up and go and do it , the other thing , th th the desire to go on sleeping , says you know , well do n't wake now , I want to go on sleeping . |
| 8 | pick your gun up and go and shoot . |
| 9 | It 's very easy for young people to come into politics , full of enthusiasm and full up of get up get up and go and many of them get up and go after a few years . |
| 10 | I either have to remove existing fee paying patients from the Health Service or sell up and go and do something else . |
| 11 | I agree with what you 're saying , but we should also look at what we do , for instance David when you go out you virtually never divert your telephone , everytime you go out ten minutes later I get up and go and divert your phone for you , if we get into the habit of diverting our phones then we we would n't have that problem . |
| 12 | And when he got there the bloke said oh just pull up and go and get it done now , I said now any other man would of gone in the cafe and thought right , I would of been drop now till twelve |
| 13 | Get up and go and sit down . |
| 14 | He has to stick his head up and go where the fuck has it gone ? |
| 15 | Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute . |
| 16 | Mrs Johnson said ‘ No ! ’ indignantly , and Mrs Stych woke up and checked that the girl had her name down correctly , too . |
| 17 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 18 | Chrissie looked up and saw that Jack was wearing his jacket . |
| 19 | One very hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed . |
| 20 | Alexei looked up and saw that Kadan was laughing openly . |
| 21 | In confusion again , Louisa looked up and saw that the light was performing wondrously now across the lake . |
| 22 | You were here when I left , and then when I was passing I looked up and saw that your desk light was still on . |
| 23 | She looked up and saw that he was standing over her . |
| 24 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 25 | She looked up and saw that the lights had changed to green and as the car behind her sounded its horn she let out the clutch too quickly and the car lurched forward . |
| 26 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 27 | It 's about time that you grew up and realised that I can not possibly be dancing attendance on you every five minutes . ’ |
| 28 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 29 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 30 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |