Example sentences of "[noun pl] up and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did nt the player lift his knees up and decapitate the donkey ? |
| 2 | I 'll get some of those bricks up and put the stone things down cos they look better . |
| 3 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
| 4 | ‘ But you must put your feet up and let the younger ones get on with being busy for a change . |
| 5 | A rare one she is for putting her feet up and having an early supper in front of the telly you 've put in her room . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll go put the blacks up and light the lamp , ’ said Tom . |
| 7 | Right now Stephen hang your cups up and put the knives and forks away while I sort this out . |
| 8 | She is no longer simply a steady rallier and scampering retriever but can tie opponents up and utilise the openings created . |
| 9 | Draw the line out in pencil first , using your spirit level , and then pin the battens up and check the level again . |
| 10 | Mitchell and Simpson opened things up and created the chance for Martin Ling to score . |
| 11 | This reduces the amount of memory your file needs , speeds things up and gives a much better result at the end of the day than you could ever hope to achieve with a scanner . |
| 12 | When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance . |
| 13 | Tokyo : Index-linked buying just before the close drove prices up and enabled the Nikkei average to end with a gain of 140.19 points at 35,522.99 . |
| 14 | When you 're revising you said the other night , you cover the answers up and try the question . |
| 15 | Now she can put her right arm in the right-hand hole , and her left in the left side ; then simply lift her arms up and sweep the coat over her head into place . |
| 16 | He held his hands up and admitted an error and we felt for him on the night . |
| 17 | Social interviews , sometimes known as ‘ trial by sherry ’ , are theoretically relaxed occasions , like a drinks party or dinner , but the atmosphere tends to become rather strained as one half of the party sizes up and assesses the other half . |
| 18 | ‘ They tried to play our style of basketball and it worked our guys up and brought a competitive edge out of them . ’ |
| 19 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 20 | Bloody hell I might have pools up and win a million pound this week , what the hell I wan na take your money for ? |