Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know the poeple on Blackbird Leys are ganging up and doing it themselves , taking the law into their own hands , they 'll do it if there is n't anything done |
| 2 | ‘ He 's pretty straightforward most of the time , but he will nip darned hard when you 're tacking up and mean it ! |
| 3 | The " ladder " is in fact a stairway ( perhaps like that of the ziggurat ) , since angels are going up and down it ( compare Jesus ' words to Nathanael in John 1:51 ) . |
| 4 | By being chopped up and reshaped I suppose . |
| 5 | If I were to begin to manage another major artist , and Mark Knopfler were to ring up and ask me to get the band back together for an album and a world tour , something would have to suffer . |
| 6 | She confirmed what you had told me about Edouard being beaten up and said she was afraid it was all because of her . |
| 7 | Constanza was growing up and knew it . |
| 8 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |