Example sentences of "gathered them [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 4 | Sam knocked over his jar of biros on his desk , gathered them up and dropped his notebook . |
| 5 | 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 . |