Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Appropriates ’ is generally proved by a witness stating that the accused picked the property up or put it in a shopping bag or a pocket . |
| 2 | Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy . |
| 3 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 4 | Jonathan , Jonathan , dad wants to watch the news in a minute please , so hurry up and change it over You 'd think they 'd save that You do n't know , I would n't be surprised you will well that 's marvellous is n't it ? |
| 5 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 6 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Colin , get that photograph of that Porsche , blow it up and stick it at your work-station in your branch . |
| 9 | And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I should pick it up and bite it with your teeth if it 's getting too difficult . |
| 12 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 13 | Instead you were given a medicine bottle , bought a stick of liquorice , cut this up and stuck it into the bottle . |
| 14 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 15 | ‘ This book : if you lose it somewhere , someone will pick it up and return it to you . |
| 16 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 17 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 18 | I was gon na screw it up and throw it at you . |
| 19 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 22 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 23 | She held a warning finger up and wagged it in Fernando 's direction . |
| 24 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 25 | Charging pensioners and children for medical prescriptions picked that one up and dropped it like a hot potato and charging for hospital treatment and why so why not do a U-turn on on this one ? |
| 26 | He picked it up and dropped it in a bowl of fruit punch . |
| 27 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 28 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 29 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 30 | Thankfully there 's always Dave Hemingway 's grin , Brian Corrigan 's Grogan-esque voice and Heaton 's foppish dancing to cheer us up and turn it into a gorgeous and lurvely night . |