Example sentences of "up [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damon kept rolling them up and using them as megaphones . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Unless you intend tying me up and locking me in my room ? ’ |
| 6 | Indeed the only real drawback , if you can call it that , is that people are continually coming up and congratulating us on our victory over England . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | you want to see me , I get up three times to rake ashes er out and then I go int the kitchen in that cupboard , gerra newspaper and I 'm here screwing it up and throwing it on fireplace . |
| 10 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 11 | It 's just that it would have been nice to have seen the signs , ’ said Caspar , rolling the maps up and packing them in his saddle bag . |
| 12 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 15 | Short of tripping her up and hitting her over the head , goodness only knew . |
| 16 | They kept bloody coming up and hitting you in the face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You should n't be lifting it up and putting it at back of your head ! |
| 19 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |