Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 4 | Take about three bananas , and cut them up and arrange them on a plate in four pieces to look like a monster . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Damon kept rolling them up and using them as megaphones . |
| 7 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 8 | She tore them up and tossed them into the bin . |
| 9 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sure they pick things up and throw them at each other . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Malcolm just used to screw them up and chuck them in the bin . |
| 15 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 16 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 17 | We ca n't stand up and lecture them on self-reliance and personal responsibility and then wade in and take over as soon as they show signs of doing what we want . |
| 18 | How many times shall I stand up and lecture them about Highfield , I do n't know . |
| 19 | But they took what few they 'd got left on our regiment to Ireland so nobody else 'd desert , while they rounded the others up and took them to Ireland you see . |
| 20 | Eat them or mash them up and put them on your face — with their soothing properties , carrots really earn their ‘ skin-food ’ label . |
| 21 | erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them . |
| 22 | ‘ If you 're looking for your undies , I 've folded them up and put them on top of the TV for you . |
| 23 | up and put them on the window sill |
| 24 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Frau Hoflin took one look at her and refrained from asking her to pick them up and put them in the washing machine . |
| 29 | They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know . |
| 30 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |