Example sentences of "[vb past] up a piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This done , she whipped up a piece of tape , which she tied some inches from the bottom ; then , while still holding on to the hair with one hand , her other hand shot out and pulled open a drawer from which she grabbed a pair of large scissors . |
| 2 | He pulled up a piece of grass and began to chew it thoughtfully . |
| 3 | She picked up a piece of pottery and turned it over . |
| 4 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |
| 5 | He picked up a piece of paper with some writing on it , could not decipher the writing , and dropped it . |
| 6 | She picked up a piece of paper and began drawing little cameo pictures of the bowl of fruit on the sideboard , of the flowers in the garden , bending under the wind . |
| 7 | Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time . |
| 8 | They left , and while the adults were talking and stuffing themselves , I picked up a piece of pig 's pudding for Frankie who was still huddled by the fire . |
| 9 | Schellenberg held up a piece of paper which was actually some stationery from the hotel he 'd stayed at in Vienna the previous week . |
| 10 | Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures . |