Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] it [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you only have one rope , do your second a favour and either double it up or pull it through after doing the pitch and drop it back to your mate to protect the moves down the flake . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll need some help to wrap it up and get it down to the car . |
| 3 | You ca n't up and change it just like that . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then he heard Boy say ‘ Yes , ’ and then he heard the TV change ; Boy had got up and turned it over to a boxing match , which was something Boy never usually watched . |
| 6 | Dangerfield followed and , as the gendarme raised his truncheon , reached up and tugged it away from him . |
| 7 | What you did was to save the lot up and cash it in for a big meal . |
| 8 | Artemis reached up and took it down off the shelf . |
| 9 | I folded it up and put it away in a small carved wooden box in which I kept other trinkets and treasures of no significance to anyone except myself . |
| 10 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 11 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 12 | He picked it up and held it away from him while he looked at it . |
| 13 | The poet picked it up and handed it over to the Time Lord . |
| 14 | Suddenly she said , ‘ Oh — it wo n't work , ’ and screwed the paper up and threw it away from her . |
| 15 | Brave Faik Edaan scooped the device up and threw it out before catching the fleeing Tucker . |
| 16 | What usually happens is one bloke ‘ digs ’ ( see box ) the ball up , the other guy ‘ volleys it ’ high in the air , then the first guy jumps up and smashes it down over the net . |
| 17 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 18 | She slipped it from his shoulders , folding it up and placing it carefully on the chair . |
| 19 | Snorting angrily , he picked it up and read it aloud in a contemptuous voice : " Shareholders demand immediate explanation why production tonnage down last month . |
| 20 | I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry . |
| 21 | He lifted one foot up and placed it heavily in front of the other , making a slow progression to the gate . |