Example sentences of "up and [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instead you were given a medicine bottle , bought a stick of liquorice , cut this up and stuck it into the bottle . |
| 4 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 5 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 6 | The steak was ready and Matthew dished it up and took it to the dining table . |
| 7 | Then , suddenly , he picked it up and flung it across the room . |
| 8 | A little hesitantly and with an ear cocked for approaching footsteps , she picked it up and tried it in the cupboard lock . |
| 9 | Alice crumpled it up and pushed it into the kitchen bin . |
| 10 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 11 | He picked it up and threw it into the flames . |
| 12 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 13 | He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket . |
| 14 | So of course our Emma got it and tore it up and threw it in the fire . |
| 15 | Turning from the window , Polly picked her bag up and opened it on the desk . |