Example sentences of "[pron] up and put [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you have let anybody in they 'd chop you up and put you in their next stew |
| 2 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 3 | Eat them or mash them up and put them on your face — with their soothing properties , carrots really earn their ‘ skin-food ’ label . |
| 4 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 5 | And that if you do n't pick them up and put them back where you got them from , they are still there two weeks later , and the house looks a bit of a tip . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're looking for your undies , I 've folded them up and put them on top of the TV for you . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Frau Hoflin took one look at her and refrained from asking her to pick them up and put them in the washing machine . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | But if they 're dry I just fold them up and put them away anyway . |
| 12 | They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know . |
| 13 | Because the children were crying , they picked them up and put something in their mouths . |
| 14 | She then sorts all the vests and folds them up and puts them in the box , then the pants , then dresses and lastly cardigans . |
| 15 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 16 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 17 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 18 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Dr Williams ripped a New Year 's Eve dance poster off the noticeboard , screwed it up and put it behind his back . ’ |
| 20 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 21 | I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me . |
| 22 | It landed on the floor beside Lavender 's desk and very quickly she ducked down and picked it up and put it into her pencil-box for another time . |
| 23 | ‘ Roll it up and put it away , Snake , ’ came the response . |
| 24 | Anthony came to read it , then automatically folded it up and put it in the breast pocket of his black coat . |
| 25 | Undoing his Sulka tie , he rolled it up and put it in his pocket . |
| 26 | I folded it up and put it away in a small carved wooden box in which I kept other trinkets and treasures of no significance to anyone except myself . |
| 27 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 28 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 29 | And then we had to pick it up and put it near Cider and Cider ate it . |
| 30 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |