Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damon kept rolling them up and using them as megaphones . |
| 2 | ‘ She got our backs up and treated us like schoolchildren , ’ said Davies . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Barton-on-Humber , Burton Stava Broomfleet all had clay pits where they used to dig out the clay and cut it up and make it into bricks . |
| 7 | To wire them up and treat them like machines . |
| 8 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 9 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |