Example sentences of "up and [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 DIGGING IT UP AND WRITING IT DOWN
2 He could walk right up and ask it the question that burned within him .
3 Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy .
4 He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you .
5 Once a grand place in its own grounds , suburban London had crept up and round it , trapping it among the terraced streets .
6 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 .
7 I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science .
8 ‘ I 'll need some help to wrap it up and get it down to the car .
9 It 's , you can put it in but you ca n't put it back with your fingers you do n't realize it when you go up and get it and you ai n't got enough
10 Hurry up and get it then !
11 He whacked it up and got it ; I won .
12 But she did n't get she got ill treated and that and he did n't the erm boy did n't feed him properly so it 's all sort of skin and bone so we went and brought his pony and erm , we sort of fed it up and got it going again .
13 You ca n't up and change it just like that . ’
14 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 ?
15 And there was something about it that froze the blood , even before he woke up and knew it was real .
16 Constanza was growing up and knew it .
17 He wrote a decisive letter to Newton and then tore it up and burnt it .
18 Well of course you can guess the rest , I took it up and had it valued and then put in an auction .
19 When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’
20 Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki …
21 ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said .
22 And I looked up and said it 's here !
23 As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 She showed it to me , she went up and fetch it , with the handles at the side .
28 And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap .
29 Colin , get that photograph of that Porsche , blow it up and stick it at your work-station in your branch .
30 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 .
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