Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Alan 's started phoning me up and saying |
| 2 | She liked to spend her time with the other old people , exchanging grumbles and , as she put it , cheerin' them up and takin' them out o' themselves . |
| 3 | I suggest wiring them up and trailing them overboard to thaw . |
| 4 | If they suss out that you 're a fanatical prospector they 'll have a great time winding you up and sending you off on a series of wild goose chases . |
| 5 | Here , bacteria get to work on it , softening it up and making it ready for chewing . |
| 6 | A two-year-old motor-cruiser with a litre of two-year-old diesel in its tanks used it up while trying to separate the crashed boats , and so joined them . |
| 7 | They can be observed flitting across the pit as they attempt to swim , with the parent picking them up and spitting them back into the quivering mass . |
| 8 | They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’ |
| 9 | Nara and the twins were endlessly fascinated with the little , blind , half-bald creatures , and spent hours picking them up and playing with them . |
| 10 | " Oh , they love it when the kids are babies , dressing them up and looking after them , everybody loves babies , but it 's different when they get older , " they say . |
| 11 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 14 | The creche staff did a fine job of picking her up and delivering her back to our chalet , so by the second week we decided to take her skiing with us . |
| 15 | A murder trial jury has been told that a teenager who was left in charge of a baby girl for a few minutes killed the child by picking her up and smashing her head against a wall . |
| 16 | ‘ I remember picking her up and playing with her , but now , although she 's friendly up to a point , she 's gradually becoming more dangerous . |
| 17 | Picking it up and pretending to do a rather elaborate waltz along the road with it , on the other hand , would be thought of as a much more creditable act of hooliganism . |
| 18 | Cos I remember , I remember picking it up and reading it , I was out in the garden at the time . |
| 19 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 20 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 21 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
| 22 | Ten-year-old Luke Johnson dug it up and thinking it was ‘ dead ’ , planned to take it home as an ornament . |
| 23 | They just drive round perhaps driving it parking it up and having a walk |
| 24 | But it wo n't be arriving there until they get this Well they have the C D ROM , they just have n't got it up and running . |
| 25 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 26 | But she 's more organised than these lads you see , whatever the duties are you know , she 's got hers up and running and whereas they 're still a bit you know have n't got it going as well as she has . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | She kept calling me up and following us around . |
| 29 | Get her up and going , . |
| 30 | Yeah I know it 's well again , you know , kind of once you can see , once you can see what 's wrong with it rather than just sort of , you know , screwing it up and throwing it away , you know kind of if you can use that as a basis for , for , you know , kind of putting more of the stuff in that makes it look a bit more academic |