Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tore them up and tossed them into the bin . |
| 2 | And he was going again , but when he wanted his clothes to go my mother had cut them up and burnt them ! |
| 3 | They made sure children got safely on to the chairlift and picked them up and dusted them down if they fell . |
| 4 | Evans has admitted buying petrol that night , but says White attacked the couple , tied them up and forced him and Sheila Stroud to drive to the clifftop . |
| 5 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 6 | Well , I said nothing , covered them up and tucked them to my side . |
| 7 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 8 | Sam knocked over his jar of biros on his desk , gathered them up and dropped his notebook . |
| 9 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 10 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 11 | Massingham picked them up and rubbed them between his palms and thumbs and sniffed . |
| 12 | Well , I 'm going to start on , I 've cut up some so I 'm going to finish cutting them up and lay them out . |
| 13 | Uncle Philip picked them up and stuck them briskly in the gap between the puppet 's wooden breast and its white satin bodice . |
| 14 | They lined them up and shot them . |
| 15 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 16 | Today , only the altar candlesticks had been forgotten ( it was Elaine Dodswell and Trish Pardoe 's week and they could at least be relied upon ) so Anna gathered them up and took them home to polish . |
| 17 | Edward picked them up and brought them over to where we were . |
| 18 | Della picked them up and held them . |
| 19 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 20 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 21 | So I wrapped them up and gave them to her for her birthday . |
| 22 | Sebastian dropped his clothes on the floor , she picked them up and washed them . |
| 23 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 24 | She scooped them up and dumped them on the table . |
| 25 | He then picked me up and drove his knee straight into my balls . |
| 26 | What if , like my poor neighbour , I was to be so riddled with cancer , that after cutting me open , they just sewed me up and sent me home ? |
| 27 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 28 | ‘ He rang me up and said he was feeling lousy and could I look up his chart . |
| 29 | No spare parts were available but a small bus-load of Indian servants from our diocesan girls ’ school in Rangoon picked me up and took me on with them . |
| 30 | ‘ After missing the P-38 , a friend in Fresno , California rang me up and told me of a Corsair that was being advertised for sale in the American journal Trade-a-Plane . |