Example sentences of "up and [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you 've got ta ring them up and ask them again to see who 's to see who Cos they usually say , Well I 'll see what I can do , and then you 've got to ring them up again and see if they 've done anything , and and er and then sometimes you 've got ta ring them up again . |
| 2 | She wanted to snatch them up and hide them away from the coolly assessing scrutiny that seemed to lay her bare . |
| 3 | he could n't manage to think and I 've never learnt how to manage to , that erm , the engine , so we got rid of the boat and then our son he 's got a big boat , he 's got a real speedboat , a real big one and Julian he 's got a smaller speedboat , so both of the boys go there , when we go camping we always have a good time because it 's all a family affair like , you know , always get together and erm go on , on a boat , fishing , having fresh mackerels come back and clean them up and fry them straight fresh from the sea , never tasted as fresh , fresh as , fresher fish than , than |
| 4 | Uncle Philip picked them up and stuck them briskly in the gap between the puppet 's wooden breast and its white satin bodice . |
| 5 | ‘ Pick people up and throw them away . ’ |
| 6 | move the cabinets and if they 're no good just cut them up and throw them away |
| 7 | Today , only the altar candlesticks had been forgotten ( it was Elaine Dodswell and Trish Pardoe 's week and they could at least be relied upon ) so Anna gathered them up and took them home to polish . |
| 8 | So he we came along dug the tomato plants up and took them home ? |
| 9 | But if they 're dry I just fold them up and put them away anyway . |
| 10 | If you dry up and put them there now cos it 's nearly . |
| 11 | They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’ |
| 12 | I feel sure if you offer to pick people up and take them home again , you 'll be , you 'll be swamped you wo n't know what to do with them |
| 13 | As people adopt wilder and wilder attempts to keep the bad feelings down , so it is ever more likely that these feelings will bounce up and hit them even harder in return . |
| 14 | ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away . |
| 15 | I suggest wiring them up and trailing them overboard to thaw . |
| 16 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll scurry up and get them straight away . ’ |
| 18 | I crawled down these stairs forty-eight years ago and I 've walked up and down them ever since , mostly in me bare feet , and I 've never got splinters . ’ |
| 19 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 20 | That is to say , once we have used them all up and thrown them away , there wo n't be any more — ever . |