wash the dishes
do the dishes , also: wash up BrE , also: do the washing-up

As I remember, we were doing the dishes at the time.

She did the dishes and found me in the living room.

You better go back in there, and do the dishes.

I came back, did the dishes, and sat down to think about the food.

We would have to break your arms to keep you from doing the dishes.

I was going to do the dishes, cross my heart.

Doing the dishes for 70,000 would not seem a popular task.

Do your kids always argue over who does the dishes?

After dinner the children did the dishes and ran out to play.

It's a long one and I end up doing the dishes too before she's finished.

Mother let me take him a cup of coffee last night while she was doing the dishes.

"I think we'd better do the dishes before she gets back."

It was stupid, not doing the dishes in the night.

Then I cleared off the table and started to do the dishes.

I kiss you and get up to do the dishes.

Such a performance ensures she need never do the dishes.

Larry was doing the dishes, the rest of them were sitting at the kitchen table.

I ran water in the sink and started doing the dishes.

"I can rack up 34 minutes of free time while I'm doing the dishes."

He said, "It's wrong for the children to see a man doing the dishes?"

After dinner, I rose to do the dishes and he stopped me.

If you're not after listening to me, I'll go and do the dishes.

A. No, it was more like singing around the kitchen when we did the dishes together.

If you want to do the dishes, though, you'll have to provide your own kitchen sink.

"Sounds like an excuse to get out of doing the dishes to me."

Why should I even make the bed or wash the dishes?

So one night my mother asked me to go inside and wash the dishes.

After he had washed the dishes they sat in the study.

It is known also that she did not like washing the dishes.

Now I'd have to wash the dishes with the girls, say, for three or four days.

She was in the kitchen with her back to me, washing the dishes.

If cash is really short, you can always wash the dishes.

Even if it meant washing the dishes at home one night.

Do both the following: wash the dishes and clean your room!

Trying to keep the promise, he washed the dishes after his mother was gone to work.

I mean into the bin first and then wash the dishes.

He cleared and washed the dishes, then left the house.

I washed the dishes and joined Mark in front of the fire.

"I'll help you clear the table and wash the dishes."

I went to Ricky's room while they washed the dishes.

As I was washing the dishes, the phone rang again.

He does about 40 percent of the cooking and washes the dishes.

Connie got up from the table and began washing the dishes.

While she was washing the dishes, Rex came over to her.

They don't have to set the table or wash the dishes.

She would have washed the dishes, but there was no soap.

"Since when was it ever soothing for you to wash the dishes?"

Rachel washed the dishes and got ready for bed herself.

Yet she had no alternative for washing the dishes and clothes.

As I washed the dishes, my back became tense with fear.

They told us to wash up and come with them.

You always had to wash up after coming in from outside.

And then I usually have to do the washing up as well.

Not like here, where I'm washed up and most of my old friends have left.

He looks like he's a man who wants to get on with the washing up.

I have a bad night, and everybody says I'm washed up?

A guy all washed up, not someone out of the top ten.

Then I'll wash up and we three can go to dinner.

How did he come to be washed up way out there?

At least she still had time to wash up before dinner.

Maybe he washed up on a different part of the island.

It was a long shot, but he might get to see more of her, if they washed up together.

They told him to wash up and "get some rest."

You'll help cook and wash up all part of the course!

And then, well if you're going out that way you take all this washing up.

He had a bowl of water and was washing up.

Looked at the door to the kitchen, where his wife was washing up.

His body washed up on the beach the following day.

During this time my mother is in the kitchen washing up.

I felt like something that had washed up on the beach.

Put it down, Mother, then go change your clothes and wash up.

Three bodies from further away were also washed up here.

Then you can wash up and change - do not worry.

You go home, wash up, eat something, and come back at two.

The body was washed up six weeks later further down the coast.