Example sentences of "[vb past] they up and [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lined them up and shot them . |
| 2 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She scooped them up and dumped them on the table . |
| 5 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 6 | Well , I said nothing , covered them up and tucked them to my side . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Today , only the altar candlesticks had been forgotten ( it was Elaine Dodswell and Trish Pardoe 's week and they could at least be relied upon ) so Anna gathered them up and took them home to polish . |
| 9 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 10 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 11 | She tore them up and tossed them into the bin . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Massingham picked them up and rubbed them between his palms and thumbs and sniffed . |
| 14 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 15 | Edward picked them up and brought them over to where we were . |
| 16 | Uncle Philip picked them up and stuck them briskly in the gap between the puppet 's wooden breast and its white satin bodice . |
| 17 | She said and he picked them up and put them both together and it was seven hundred and odd she had to pay out , for her car ! |
| 18 | They made sure children got safely on to the chairlift and picked them up and dusted them down if they fell . |
| 19 | Sebastian dropped his clothes on the floor , she picked them up and washed them . |
| 20 | Della picked them up and held them . |
| 21 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 22 | So I wrapped them up and gave them to her for her birthday . |