Example sentences of "it up and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think it 's best to , yeah yeah , I mean o the best thing to do is actually lift it up and use a little bit of the underneath to try out the colours what colour 's that going to be ? |
| 2 | He picked it up and tapped the old tobacco out onto the range . |
| 3 | It 's just a little gel that you put in the palm of your hand use some warm water and lather it up and put the lather over your face . |
| 4 | ‘ She covers it up and tells the little girl it 's full of fairies and pretty make-believe so she must n't be scared , and she tells the boy it 's really there , dead , under the shawl . ’ |
| 5 | so that 's how it works , open it up and get the mast . |
| 6 | He picked it up and set the flowers down on the locker . |
| 7 | Maybe I could stack it up and set the place alight , so that they — and that terrible female they were now conspiring to bring to life — would perish in the flames , together with all Frankenstein 's instruments and notes . |
| 8 | She picked it up and saw the name Jarrett Keach flowing across it in brown mock handwriting which was presumably a facsimile of Jarrett 's own signature . |
| 9 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 10 | It 's questions and answers , I do n't know , I 've forgotten , I , I , I only opened it up and had a look at it at Christmas and I thought thirty something pounds for that , a load of rubbish , I do n't know what it is . |
| 11 | Well that man bought the distillery in Stromness and broke it up and sold the timber out of it . |
| 12 | He picked it up and studied the contours of the face , a slight smile on his lips . |
| 13 | The telephone rang , and as soon as she picked it up and heard the echo on the line from the Prince 's lofty Palace rooms , she knew who was calling . |
| 14 | When the telephone rang , she picked it up and heard the Colonel 's voice . |
| 15 | I phoned it up and says the fella had been out , you know , they change , update it |
| 16 | The child picks it up and mimes the phrase on the paper . |
| 17 | Er and they 're very sensitive to that and they pick it up and make the most of it . |
| 18 | He picked it up and read the label . |
| 19 | Karen says that her mum used to compete as a swimmer , so she took it up and caught the bug . |
| 20 | His white-gloved hands played possum on the desk-top until one of them walked across to the baton , picked it up and hit the desk-top a sharp blow . |
| 21 | Then she mixed it up and ladled the soil back into the flowerpots , tore open her seed packets and hastily poked the seeds into the soil . |
| 22 | But as you are determined to live it up and have a good time , you must watch your health and try not to burn the candle at both ends . |
| 23 | I do n't remember the paper I only look at the front and the back on a Friday , well pick it up and have a look |
| 24 | But , when she picked it up and gasped a breathless ‘ hello ’ , the voice that answered was n't Luke at all . |
| 25 | He picked it up and opened the door of his room . |
| 26 | They just drive round perhaps driving it parking it up and having a walk |
| 27 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 28 | It would cost you more to build it up and buy the parts |
| 29 | He snatched it up and tore the bronze ring from its wrist . |