Example sentences of "gathered [pron] [adv prt] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 3 | Sam knocked over his jar of biros on his desk , gathered them up and dropped his notebook . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When Dot began to stumble and fall over with tiredness , Gloria gathered her up and carried her too . |
| 6 | Mrs Robinson gathered it up and buried her face in its fur . |
| 7 | There was , I remember , quite a restful interlude up some alley or other , during which we reclined panting on a heap of cardboard boxes ; then two young men jovially gathered us up and escorted us back into the action . |