Example sentences of "up and [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 2 | Hurry up and get it then ! |
| 3 | You ca n't up and change it just like that . ’ |
| 4 | When we are very young we see a fluffy kitten as something especially soft and cuddly and we have a strong desire to pick it up and hold it tight . |
| 5 | Dangerfield followed and , as the gendarme raised his truncheon , reached up and tugged it away from him . |
| 6 | If you did n't bother turning up and reading it then that was no p |
| 7 | So I dug it up and brought it indoors again . |
| 8 | I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me . |
| 9 | ‘ Roll it up and put it away , Snake , ’ came the response . |
| 10 | I folded it up and put it away in a small carved wooden box in which I kept other trinkets and treasures of no significance to anyone except myself . |
| 11 | Yeah I know it 's well again , you know , kind of once you can see , once you can see what 's wrong with it rather than just sort of , you know , screwing it up and throwing it away , you know kind of if you can use that as a basis for , for , you know , kind of putting more of the stuff in that makes it look a bit more academic |
| 12 | It was in a terrible state when we moved in but we cleaned it up and made it quite homely . |
| 13 | When Eva came back she hid his teeth , but he splodged it all up and ate it anyway . |
| 14 | I picked it up and studied it curiously . |
| 15 | It 's not desperately moist , although certainly one of them is cracking quite a bit , and if that helps to dry it up and make it more comfortable then it 's worth giving them a soak ten minutes a day . |
| 16 | In my view , the steps that the Government have taken , and are proposing to take , will in no way diminish the handling of the cases ; indeed , I hope that they will speed it up and make it more effective and efficient . |
| 17 | Joan : One day , my mum hates birds , right , so my cat , um , um , killed one and brought it indoors and my mum screamed and my da — my brother had to pick it up and take it outside . |
| 18 | I 'm not about to wrap all that stuff up and take it home again , and God knows it 's a sin to waste it . ’ |
| 19 | He folded it up and tucked it away very quickly . ’ |
| 20 | From time to time one of the team got to his feet , went over to a neat pile of mortar bombs , picked one up and slid it gently down the muzzle of the mortar . |
| 21 | Take some coffee up , or tea up and leave it there and in payment for the drinks that you 've had . |
| 22 | They 're opening the game up and making it more attractive to spectators . ’ |
| 23 | But once you 're up and running it soon becomes clear that networks let you do a whole host of other things . |
| 24 | He picked it up and held it away from him while he looked at it . |
| 25 | And even if you tore the guarantee up and threw it away erm a you 've still statutory rights , anyway , given to you under the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 26 | I just screwed it up and threw it away ! ’ |
| 27 | Suddenly she said , ‘ Oh — it wo n't work , ’ and screwed the paper up and threw it away from her . |
| 28 | So you had to pick it up and carry it outside ? |
| 29 | With Keane so powerful in midfield , Nigel Clough dropping deep to hold the ball up and play it forward , the use of two wingers in Kingsley Black and Ian Woan , plus the revived spirit of England captain Stuart Pearce , Forest out-manoeuvred Spurs despite the sodden pitch . |
| 30 | She slipped it from his shoulders , folding it up and placing it carefully on the chair . |