Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 2 | She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago . |
| 3 | Instead you were given a medicine bottle , bought a stick of liquorice , cut this up and stuck it into the bottle . |
| 4 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 5 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 6 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 7 | The steak was ready and Matthew dished it up and took it to the dining table . |
| 8 | During the week , whenever they were out , she insisted that she roll her hair up and put it under the cap . |
| 9 | Then probably , if the weather was fine the next day or two , we would go and drag-rake it up with another horse in a drag-rake ; and then rake it all up and put it on the cock . |
| 10 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 11 | Could you just take the carrycot up and put it on the floor ? |
| 12 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |
| 13 | They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market |
| 14 | Anthony came to read it , then automatically folded it up and put it in the breast pocket of his black coat . |
| 15 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 16 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 17 | Then they stand it up and show it to the world . |
| 18 | Then , suddenly , he picked it up and flung it across the room . |
| 19 | She indicated the glass of milk on the table and moved to pick it up and take it into the kitchen . |
| 20 | A little hesitantly and with an ear cocked for approaching footsteps , she picked it up and tried it in the cupboard lock . |
| 21 | Alice crumpled it up and pushed it into the kitchen bin . |
| 22 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 23 | He picked it up and threw it into the flames . |
| 24 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 25 | He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket . |
| 26 | So of course our Emma got it and tore it up and threw it in the fire . |
| 27 | This can become a real problem unless the situation is handled cautiously , because simply lifting the dog up and placing it in the car will be counter-productive . |
| 28 | Right , I think er , everyone 's had a good say from both sides , and I would like to sum up and put it to the vote . |
| 29 | That 's when they used to come up and put it in the straight on to the station . |
| 30 | Erm but er I hope you 're not going to way that er Westminster Council has gone , for each er er er , er er th their property into disrepair they bought it up , do it up and flog it on the open market when a few yards away there are people no a er now sleeping under bridges and canals ! |