Example sentences of "[noun sg] up and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the most exquisite kind of agony , unable to think of anything but making love to you , and then I was pushing your skirt up and getting my face slapped . |
| 2 | He held the piece up and sighted it , squeezing the trigger , allowing the hammer to fall on an empty chamber . |
| 3 | be up there on Saturday , I shall load the car up and take them |
| 4 | I started his car up and set his car in reverse |
| 5 | That means she 'll make her mind up and tell us , yeah we 'll make our minds up , the royal we |
| 6 | Take some coffee up , or tea up and leave it there and in payment for the drinks that you 've had . |
| 7 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 8 | I 've got the word count from each one I 'll be able to sort of tot up and tell you when to stop collecting from that area . |
| 9 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 10 | He rolled the plan up and returned it to Berger . |
| 11 | ‘ No , you do n't Bernie , ’ said Noreen , lifting the child up and carrying her out . |
| 12 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |
| 13 | When he was finished he sat the boy up and tousled his hair . |
| 14 | Brave Faik Edaan scooped the device up and threw it out before catching the fleeing Tucker . |
| 15 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 16 | Or bottle all my aggression up and let it turn into high blood pressure ? |
| 17 | His death was accidental , but the police would never believe that , and so they came to their terrible decision , to cut the body up and hide it . |
| 18 | ‘ Dig Albie 's body up and explain it to him . ’ |
| 19 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 20 | ‘ Wait a minute , wait a minute , ’ I say , pulling my left eyelid up and hurting my eye and starting that eye watering . |
| 21 | Napier have said that once they get this course up and running there 's absolutely no reason why experienced people like us ca n't dip in and out for a one off |
| 22 | It would take too long to get the computer up and do it for you , but erm you can take that away with you if , if you like , that just makes the same points I 've been making now , but using a computer simulator . |
| 23 | During the week , whenever they were out , she insisted that she roll her hair up and put it under the cap . |
| 24 | And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap . |
| 25 | She enjoyed picking the loosened brick up and weighing it in her right hand before swinging her arm to sling it on to the rubble pile . |
| 26 | He lifted one foot up and placed it heavily in front of the other , making a slow progression to the gate . |
| 27 | I 'm not about to wrap all that stuff up and take it home again , and God knows it 's a sin to waste it . ’ |
| 28 | A clear , confident speaker , who kept his head up and conveyed his enthusiasm to the audience . |
| 29 | And Geordie John Davison , who was unlucky to lose to Benichou , warns : ‘ He brings his head up and catches you before you know it . |
| 30 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |