Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone got up on stage for the final encore and launched themselves into a shambolic but passionate rendering of ‘ Wild Thing ’ which involved a bit of hot action in the shape of LOX from Kingmaker snogging an alarmed PATRICK from the Kitchens during the chorus . |
| 2 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 3 | Even after the scene with El-Jorr , Hurley did nothing to tighten up on security for the NARCOG operation . |
| 4 | I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin . |
| 5 | I got up at quarter to twelve I was starving so I had a er er |
| 6 | I booked up in advance of course . |
| 7 | When I catch up with Isabella in the rehearsal room , I am surprised to find her still a little shaken . |
| 8 | He had me drugged and I … well , I woke up in bed with one of the girls . |
| 9 | I said nervously ‘ Oh , I thought perhaps you would teach me Mr Samuel if I came up to London for lessons ’ . |
| 10 | The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine . |
| 11 | ‘ I said that this was not Shelley and I ganging up in competition against them : it was just two businesswomen trying to make more business . |
| 12 | Even now as a manager he 's still very passionate about it and I look up to people like that . ’ |
| 13 | So I finished up with T to the one , what did I start up with ? |
| 14 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 15 | I looked up in amazement at the abrupt shift . |
| 16 | ‘ I go up to London for half a day , get myself a job , and what do I find when I get home , eh ? |
| 17 | I went up to Cambridge in the Michaelmas term of 1921 . |
| 18 | I grew up on Jock of the Bushveld , that marvellous book by Sir Perry Fitzpatrick about hunting in South Africa . |
| 19 | If I end up in bed with Rory I 'll have a lovely time and then I 'll quit . |
| 20 | When Dennis summoned us to table , I ended up with Karen on one side of me and the computer analyst 's wife on the other . |
| 21 | I ended up in Sweden for most of that time . |
| 22 | In January I ended up in bed for a month . |
| 23 | I ended up in hospital in a plaster cast , the trauma of which brought about a nervous breakdown which resulted in ten months in a psychiatric hospital . |
| 24 | I 'm supposed to me meeting up with halvard on sunday when he comes up to newcastle , but I think he left for england before I had time to mail him my phone number . |
| 25 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 26 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 27 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 28 | People enquiring about the Allied Trust Tessa and the company 's status are accurately told by employees that Tessa deposits are covered by the deposit-holders ' protection scheme , which guarantees up to 75% of the first £20,000 of an investor 's money if a bank fails . |
| 29 | ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world . |
| 30 | Recurrent activity , which shows up as patches of red , is most common during the declining part of the sunspot cycle . |