Example sentences of "it up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of course , when you get one of those calls and you divert it back to the switchboard or divert it direct to when you put the phone down pick it up and dial zero , so you put another call through to headquarters community affairs and its not through us |
| 2 | But mother crumbled it up and sprinkled dry salt over it instead . |
| 3 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ But there was nothing wrong with it , apart from the colour , so we decided to cut it up and sell it as skirt lengths . ’ |
| 6 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 7 | He whacked it up and got it ; I won . |
| 8 | But she did n't get she got ill treated and that and he did n't the erm boy did n't feed him properly so it 's all sort of skin and bone so we went and brought his pony and erm , we sort of fed it up and got it going again . |
| 9 | I just picked it up and got rid of it . |
| 10 | Shoot the bird to wake it up and switch to the straight-up bullets . |
| 11 | The criminal stooped , picked it up and sniffed . |
| 12 | And there used to be like a big bobbin there and you to and they used to go like that and chuck it up and try and catch it you know , and And we used to play shuttlecock and battledore . |
| 13 | Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians . ’ |
| 14 | He picked it up and ran out on to the platform hoping to return it to its owner . |
| 15 | I picked it up and ran away . |
| 16 | He picked it up and tapped the old tobacco out onto the range . |
| 17 | She picked it up and stared blearily at it . |
| 18 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 19 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 20 | Mr Gay pulled a knife from his waistband , but was so drunk he dropped it and Cameron picked it up and fought back as he was beaten with a baton . |
| 21 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 22 | Mrs Robinson gathered it up and buried her face in its fur . |
| 23 | The poet picked it up and sang another song … |
| 24 | A half-empty bottle of red wine stood on the telephone table and he picked it up and drank from it with his left hand as he lifted the receiver with his right . |
| 25 | ‘ Dr Williams ripped a New Year 's Eve dance poster off the noticeboard , screwed it up and put it behind his back . ’ |
| 26 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 27 | I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me . |
| 28 | It landed on the floor beside Lavender 's desk and very quickly she ducked down and picked it up and put it into her pencil-box for another time . |
| 29 | ‘ Roll it up and put it away , Snake , ’ came the response . |
| 30 | Anthony came to read it , then automatically folded it up and put it in the breast pocket of his black coat . |