Example sentences of "and [verb] they up on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 2 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 3 | He picked up his glasses and rubbed them up on the tablecloth . |
| 4 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 5 | He gave the women a thirty-second start and picked them up on the northbound carriageway with ease . |