Example sentences of "out and [verb] up " in BNC.

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1 So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases .
2 We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme .
3 Nails was generally asleep not long after ten , preferring to get up when the sun did , take Firelight out and clean up her stable and do his running practice before going home for breakfast .
4 Then snooker might work out and measure up , with everything going where you want it to go , at the right weight and angle .
5 The school was closed on Wednesday as well so people had time to dry out and clear up the mess that the water had made .
6 You wan na get it sorted out and tidied up tomorrow , it 's too late to do it now
7 Descriptions of sea water tend , however lavishly written , to blow themselves out and end up in the doldrums .
8 Then she got out and strolled up to the gate with her most provocative walk .
9 For those gardeners able to cut out and plant up new beds , the nature of the rose does impose certain conditions if it is to be appreciated fully .
10 New technology allows companies to decentralize , contract out and break up large factories which have unionized workforces .
11 Chapter & the Verse : chillin' out and calling up
12 The largest intact building , erected beside the small church , was occupied by three resident monks , a lay servant , and a group of men from Berwick , who , under the supervision of a black-robed clerk , were carrying out and setting up before the building a trestle table with a stool for each end , and a couple of benches .
13 So the plan for the afternoon is , it 's now five to four so if David goes out and tidies up the hut .
14 They 're OK , we guess , which does n't say much for them until you realise that thousands of their guitar-laden brethren are desperately striving to funk up and freak out and end up sounding merely like a 15th rate version of something that was once quite good .
15 Just pull his shirt out and mess up his hair a little , and his friends would be happy .
16 He realized that he was getting cold , clad as he was exclusively in a rather small towel , but decided to stick it out and pick up all of Davidson 's message .
17 Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense .
18 I climb out and pick up the wood arrow ,
19 Those guys did n't stop the car , jump out and pick up a parcel .
20 He started with a series of gulping sobs , went through to a noise like a drain emptying out and finished up with a sort of throaty sob .
21 She cried out and doubled up then sat up .
22 on a Saturdays afternoon , they all set out and walked up past Sandybank and along to the Mill Road and the back to the village along the sand .
23 There was n't a soul in sight but the Brigadier got out and called up to his left :
24 The Harris 's hawk was brought out and took up his position on his master 's fist , coldly surveying the land .
25 The ambulance arrived and the paramedics leapt out and ran up .
26 And , when they were , the was panda was about to leave , you know , he 's all ready and the prostitute thought well well he ca n't realise so she got th , her dictionary out and looked up pand , looked for prostitute one who avails herself for money .
27 Did you get out and warm up ?
28 Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own .
29 Sleepily a hand reaches out and picks up the receiver .
30 And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week .
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