Example sentences of "up [conj] [v-ing] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even if you fence it in you still have the additional traffic that would be regenerated in picking the children up and dropping them off . |
| 4 | He says he did think of whipping up and running them down , but it would have been useless , they could shoot far faster than we could drive at them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was a practice at one time — no doubt it still continues in certain quarters — of collecting the rootstocks in which implanted buds had failed , bundling them up and selling them off as hedging . |
| 7 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |