Example sentences of "[pron] up [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names .
2 Once you have let anybody in they 'd chop you up and put you in their next stew
3 ‘ I 'm trying to control a wild urge to pick you up and carry you to my bedroom . ’
4 I picked up a bag and jokingly said , ‘ If you do n't go we 'll bag you up and send you to Hull ’ .
5 However , both TA and IT are relatively complicated to master and you re recommended to let someone else set them up or run them for you unless you are really eager to advance your computer expertise .
6 Old people , in old people 's homes , sometimes regress to this stage , and they also can be observed to play with faeces and to wrap them up and present them as a gift .
7 She tore them up and tossed them into the bin .
8 Take about three bananas , and cut them up and arrange them on a plate in four pieces to look like a monster .
9 No , I 'll I 'll I 'll ring them up and book it for eight .
10 Eat them or mash them up and put them on your face — with their soothing properties , carrots really earn their ‘ skin-food ’ label .
11 ‘ If you 're looking for your undies , I 've folded them up and put them on top of the TV for you .
12 He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket .
13 That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album .
14 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 .
15 She did n't know where half the things went , but she tidied them up and put them in piles on the stairs so people could taken them up to their rooms when they went , and the kitchen looked nice and tidy .
16 Frau Hoflin took one look at her and refrained from asking her to pick them up and put them in the washing machine .
17 They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know .
18 Because the children were crying , they picked them up and put something in their mouths .
19 Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field .
20 Well , I said nothing , covered them up and tucked them to my side .
21 and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult
22 Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase .
23 He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus .
24 Massingham picked them up and rubbed them between his palms and thumbs and sniffed .
25 One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles .
26 Malcolm just used to screw them up and chuck them in the bin .
27 Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for .
28 Tanjung said : ‘ Witnesses claim that police are taking the arrested demonstrators to the central Timisoara square , where they beat them up and stab them with bayonets , before shoving them into lorries and driving them away no one knows where . ’
29 ‘ Instead of grabbing a tin of soup the book will say , ‘ Pick up a few carrots , a leek , chop them up and throw them in water , add a dash of cream , a few leaves of chervil , and you have something homely and delicious that you have made . ’
30 And I have cleaned round him , but you know , as quick as I pick them up and throw them in the corner , he gets them out again .
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