Example sentences of "them up and [vb past] they " 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 | Well , I said nothing , covered them up and tucked them to my side . |
| 5 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 6 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 7 | Massingham picked them up and rubbed them between his palms and thumbs and sniffed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Uncle Philip picked them up and stuck them briskly in the gap between the puppet 's wooden breast and its white satin bodice . |
| 10 | They lined them up and shot them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Edward picked them up and brought them over to where we were . |
| 14 | Della picked them up and held them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 17 | So I wrapped them up and gave them to her for her birthday . |
| 18 | Sebastian dropped his clothes on the floor , she picked them up and washed them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She scooped them up and dumped them on the table . |