Example sentences of "up and [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly the official got up and took me to the lift . |
| 32 | When he stabbed and lightly wounded the driver , they tied him up and took him to the settlement . |
| 33 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 34 | The steak was ready and Matthew dished it up and took it to the dining table . |
| 35 | And then just up and shoot him in the good old British way . |
| 36 | erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them . |
| 37 | up and put them on the window sill |
| 38 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 39 | Frau Hoflin took one look at her and refrained from asking her to pick them up and put them in the washing machine . |
| 40 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 41 | During the week , whenever they were out , she insisted that she roll her hair up and put it under the cap . |
| 42 | Then probably , if the weather was fine the next day or two , we would go and drag-rake it up with another horse in a drag-rake ; and then rake it all up and put it on the cock . |
| 43 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 44 | Could you just take the carrycot up and put it on the floor ? |
| 45 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |
| 46 | They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market |
| 47 | Anthony came to read it , then automatically folded it up and put it in the breast pocket of his black coat . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 50 | Celia got up and followed her into the kitchen , and there were muffled sounds of crying . |
| 51 | They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog . |
| 52 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 53 | So I rang up and told them in the office . |
| 54 | Then they stand it up and show it to the world . |
| 55 | His mouth brushed her lips and Robyn felt the strength of his arms as he scooped her up and carried her through the doorway . |
| 56 | He strode to her , picked her up and carried her to the bed . |
| 57 | He picked her up and carried her to the stairs . |
| 58 | He picked her up and carried her into the front room . |
| 59 | He had picked her up and carried her from the flames . |
| 60 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |