Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pron] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment .
2 Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line .
3 really , your pipes should be levels , should go I drape my pipe over it if I do it , or hang it up at the back .
4 The other alternatives were to shoot the plane down before it landed or blow it up on the ground at Teheran airport when all the Imam 's followers had come forward to welcome him .
5 Once the core units are engaged you can pile in alongside them or form them up beside the core units to block enemy attacks from the sides .
6 He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game .
7 So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious .
8 Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance .
9 But because there 's a demand for it , the buses run to the school and pick them up at the school .
10 They 're erm , I erm , said goodbye come and pick me up by the school .
11 As she screamed , she felt arms grab hold of her and pick her up off the floor .
12 Er well Tony 's going to deliver it and pick it up on the Monday .
13 What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ?
14 In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone .
15 Their Inasia Shampoo Bars cost £2.25 and the only snag is that you might get muddled on the side of the bath and mix them up with the soap .
16 Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year .
17 As he ate , he opened and closed drawers , he examined papers and objects on his desk : ‘ I 'll let you loose in the west gallery and catch you up at the door to the stock-room .
18 When you 've finished , you just tear off all your flip charts , and put them up round the room or something so people can
19 It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board .
20 Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time .
21 Holly spoke the language , so he 'd better jump on an Aeroflot and get over there and chase it up with the Ministry .
22 And hang them up in the cellar all night .
23 And er and they the the afternoon shift used to come on and I used to have to carry all these checks across then , the yard and take 'em and hang 'em up in the in the check-weigh on the pit top where they weighed the wagons of coals .
24 They are attempting to cross at Dravograd and give themselves up to the British …
25 Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ?
26 It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession .
27 It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord .
28 He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach .
29 ‘ You took the Wheel to the site and set it up on the ramp ; was it left unattended at any time ? ’
30 He 'd kill Barak and set you up as the fall guy — I believe that 's the term you Americans use .
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