Example sentences of "[pron] up and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 2 | Once you have let anybody in they 'd chop you up and put you in their next stew |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm trying to control a wild urge to pick you up and carry you to my bedroom . ’ |
| 4 | I picked up a bag and jokingly said , ‘ If you do n't go we 'll bag you up and send you to Hull ’ . |
| 5 | Old people , in old people 's homes , sometimes regress to this stage , and they also can be observed to play with faeces and to wrap them up and present them as a gift . |
| 6 | She tore them up and tossed them into the bin . |
| 7 | Take about three bananas , and cut them up and arrange them on a plate in four pieces to look like a monster . |
| 8 | No , I 'll I 'll I 'll ring them up and book it for eight . |
| 9 | Eat them or mash them up and put them on your face — with their soothing properties , carrots really earn their ‘ skin-food ’ label . |
| 10 | ‘ If you 're looking for your undies , I 've folded them up and put them on top of the TV for you . |
| 11 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 12 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 13 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 14 | She did n't know where half the things went , but she tidied them up and put them in piles on the stairs so people could taken them up to their rooms when they went , and the kitchen looked nice and tidy . |
| 15 | Frau Hoflin took one look at her and refrained from asking her to pick them up and put them in the washing machine . |
| 16 | They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know . |
| 17 | Because the children were crying , they picked them up and put something in their mouths . |
| 18 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 19 | Well , I said nothing , covered them up and tucked them to my side . |
| 20 | and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult |
| 21 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 22 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 23 | Massingham picked them up and rubbed them between his palms and thumbs and sniffed . |
| 24 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 25 | Malcolm just used to screw them up and chuck them in the bin . |
| 26 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 27 | Tanjung said : ‘ Witnesses claim that police are taking the arrested demonstrators to the central Timisoara square , where they beat them up and stab them with bayonets , before shoving them into lorries and driving them away no one knows where . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Instead of grabbing a tin of soup the book will say , ‘ Pick up a few carrots , a leek , chop them up and throw them in water , add a dash of cream , a few leaves of chervil , and you have something homely and delicious that you have made . ’ |
| 29 | And I have cleaned round him , but you know , as quick as I pick them up and throw them in the corner , he gets them out again . |
| 30 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |