Example sentences of "[vb past] it up and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned it up and says the fella had been out , you know , they change , update it |
| 2 | He snatched it up and tore the bronze ring from its wrist . |
| 3 | It 's questions and answers , I do n't know , I 've forgotten , I , I , I only opened it up and had a look at it at Christmas and I thought thirty something pounds for that , a load of rubbish , I do n't know what it is . |
| 4 | Well that man bought the distillery in Stromness and broke it up and sold the timber out of it . |
| 5 | Karen says that her mum used to compete as a swimmer , so she took it up and caught the bug . |
| 6 | Then she mixed it up and ladled the soil back into the flowerpots , tore open her seed packets and hastily poked the seeds into the soil . |
| 7 | He picked it up and set the flowers down on the locker . |
| 8 | The telephone rang , and as soon as she picked it up and heard the echo on the line from the Prince 's lofty Palace rooms , she knew who was calling . |
| 9 | When the telephone rang , she picked it up and heard the Colonel 's voice . |
| 10 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 11 | He picked it up and studied the contours of the face , a slight smile on his lips . |
| 12 | He picked it up and tapped the old tobacco out onto the range . |
| 13 | She picked it up and saw the name Jarrett Keach flowing across it in brown mock handwriting which was presumably a facsimile of Jarrett 's own signature . |
| 14 | But , when she picked it up and gasped a breathless ‘ hello ’ , the voice that answered was n't Luke at all . |
| 15 | He picked it up and opened the door of his room . |
| 16 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 17 | He picked it up and read the label . |
| 18 | His white-gloved hands played possum on the desk-top until one of them walked across to the baton , picked it up and hit the desk-top a sharp blow . |