Example sentences of "they up and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wake them up and we shamble along towards the Customs . |
| 2 | Then , immediately , brush one surface of each joint with a slightly stiffer mix , line them up and apply the pressure . |
| 3 | Kids dig them up and can scratch themselves . ’ |
| 4 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 5 | He picked them up and courteously enquired of the young woman sitting closest with her boyfriend if they were hers . |
| 6 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 7 | Malcolm just used to screw them up and chuck them in the bin . |
| 8 | Of course , there are changes in the public sector , changes in organisation — indeed government finds it an almost irresistible temptation to tinker with its machinery , merge departments , break them up and give them new titles . |
| 9 | She slid them up and down her fingers , suddenly remembering that the five of them were worth nearly twenty thousand pounds . |
| 10 | I pick them up and look at the envelopes . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 13 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 14 | Philip picked them up and followed Mrs Wright down a long , flagged passage . |
| 15 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 16 | The young nurse , whose feet ached something cruel and who was desperate to snatch a cup of tea before somebody else asked her to do something for them , looked them up and down . |
| 17 | In the light of such reflections of opinion , stereotype reports that people ‘ with insight ’ were saying the Führer could not be aware of the extent of the damage , otherwise more extensive rescue operations would have been deployed , or that people were looking ‘ full of trust ’ to the Führer and expressing the wish that he should stir them up and strengthen their faith , have a hollow ring to them . |
| 18 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 19 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 20 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 21 | If she admitted that Ryan smoked her parents would probably break them up and she did n't want that . |
| 22 | Our personal involvement with them brings them the warmth of human love , while at the same time raising them up and beyond their problems to the love and healing of God . |
| 23 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |
| 24 | A terrific midwife hales them up and down stairs to the first antenatal session . |
| 25 | Sam knocked over his jar of biros on his desk , gathered them up and dropped his notebook . |
| 26 | If job security is what you seek , then besides setting your agreement down in black and white , you should strive to be well organised , willing to discuss your grievances rather than bottling them up and prepared to react flexibly if circumstances change . |
| 27 | We cover them up and assume that when someone takes their socks off there will be a nasty smell . |
| 28 | That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? |
| 29 | If it started to snow , say at four o'clock , we would have what we called snowmen — and we would knock them up and they would come running to get a day 's work in the snow . |
| 30 | You 'd see two fellows fighting in the street — you 'd pull them up and send them on their way . |