Example sentences of "[noun sg] up and [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held the piece up and sighted it , squeezing the trigger , allowing the hammer to fall on an empty chamber . |
| 2 | Take some coffee up , or tea up and leave it there and in payment for the drinks that you 've had . |
| 3 | He rolled the plan up and returned it to Berger . |
| 4 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |
| 5 | Brave Faik Edaan scooped the device up and threw it out before catching the fleeing Tucker . |
| 6 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 7 | Or bottle all my aggression up and let it turn into high blood pressure ? |
| 8 | His death was accidental , but the police would never believe that , and so they came to their terrible decision , to cut the body up and hide it . |
| 9 | ‘ Dig Albie 's body up and explain it to him . ’ |
| 10 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 11 | It would take too long to get the computer up and do it for you , but erm you can take that away with you if , if you like , that just makes the same points I 've been making now , but using a computer simulator . |
| 12 | During the week , whenever they were out , she insisted that she roll her hair up and put it under the cap . |
| 13 | And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap . |
| 14 | She enjoyed picking the loosened brick up and weighing it in her right hand before swinging her arm to sling it on to the rubble pile . |
| 15 | He lifted one foot up and placed it heavily in front of the other , making a slow progression to the gate . |
| 16 | I 'm not about to wrap all that stuff up and take it home again , and God knows it 's a sin to waste it . ’ |
| 17 | And even if you tore the guarantee up and threw it away erm a you 've still statutory rights , anyway , given to you under the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 18 | Could you just take the carrycot up and put it on the floor ? |
| 19 | A high six-iron was the mutual decision , since there was just a gentle breeze to hold the ball up and give it a good chance to stop quickly . |
| 20 | With Keane so powerful in midfield , Nigel Clough dropping deep to hold the ball up and play it forward , the use of two wingers in Kingsley Black and Ian Woan , plus the revived spirit of England captain Stuart Pearce , Forest out-manoeuvred Spurs despite the sodden pitch . |
| 21 | They 're opening the game up and making it more attractive to spectators . ’ |
| 22 | Suddenly she said , ‘ Oh — it wo n't work , ’ and screwed the paper up and threw it away from her . |
| 23 | I was trying hard to listen to the music and not look at them so I picked the local paper up and opened it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She held a warning finger up and wagged it in Fernando 's direction . |
| 26 | and th they , it was an old Indian treatment , they found it quite , sheer force of circumstances , er , that they discovered it was better sometimes to bind a wound up and leave it alone . |
| 27 | Kits are available to fit window widths up to 245cm ( 8ft ) and if the size of your window falls between sizes , buy the next size up and cut it to size according to the manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 28 | She bent down and picked the whole thing up and slammed it back . |
| 29 | Masklin picked the Thing up and turned it over and over in his hands . |
| 30 | I put my hand up and rested it against Toby 's cheek . |