Example sentences of "up a [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pretend to pick up a stone and throw it at the dog . |
| 2 | Allen whistled , picked up a stone and flung it high into the trees . |
| 3 | He picked up a stone and flung it into the horse pond . |
| 4 | Instead , he picked up a stone and threw it into the bushes , then made a noise that sounded suspiciously like ‘ shoo , shoo ’ . |
| 5 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 6 | Then , she picked up a half-brick and threw it through the drugstore window . |
| 7 | I thought that three guineas would be an appropriate amount , drew up a licence and sent it to him to sign . |
| 8 | The Queen is very quick at picking up a clue and following it through without giving the game away . |
| 9 | Aunt Kit picked up a newspaper and smoothed it out on her knee . |
| 10 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 11 | On the cusp of the second zone , close to the mainline station — the place where he always went — Ellwood picked up a girl and took her home . |
| 12 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 13 | He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light . |
| 14 | The ex-wife , bearing the tall boy 's second breakfast , stepped over him , scooped up a stool and tucked it in beside Cornelius . |
| 15 | Realistically the championship was never quite on the agenda this year , but setting up a system that gives us regular qualification for Europe and the occasional cup run/win will be satisfactory IMO . |
| 16 | When the opportunity beckoned , he made his point by the simple expedient of picking up a worm and popping it into the panting youngster 's mouth . |
| 17 | Gail ripped up a brochure and chucked it at Tjolle . |
| 18 | I can pick up a person and throw him two metres . |
| 19 | She came out with us for two or three days and sort of sat you know up a bit and saw us , but then the next week she was really no good at all |
| 20 | that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden . |
| 21 | He picked up a toy and placed it with the others on the pile . |
| 22 | Being able to pick up a colour and press it on coloured paper was all very exciting . |
| 23 | Davide , called by his father to the piano , took up a sheet and set it on the mahogany lyre stand . |
| 24 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 25 | Woolley held up a bullet and showed it to the armourer . |
| 26 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 27 | You should pick up a chair and throw it at me but |
| 28 | She pulled up a chair and patted it invitingly . |
| 29 | Then he picked up a chair and threw it at Detchard 's legs . |
| 30 | As soon as he was up and about he insisted on taking up a Magister and flying it one-handed , and before long he was back on operations with an artificial arm . |