Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] up [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again . |
| 2 | That 's very true and they have a the industry itself , you know , now has to pick itself up and say right we , you know , and it 's very easy to talk oneself into recession and January and February , normally fairly dull months anyway , we are now , on March the first , Saint David 's Day , at the brink of a season which could be one of the best seasons they ever have . |
| 3 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 4 | Then I 'm going to take another triangular bandage and I 'm going to open it up and make just a little fold , this is going to go on her forehead and that little fold just helps with keeping it firm and stopping the bandage slip , now , just put it around the forehead like that , okay ? |
| 5 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 6 | He needed his wife 's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand . |
| 7 | I found a woman talking unhappily into a telephone and tried to cheer her up and went on trying even after her boyfriend or husband appeared from somewhere . |
| 8 | He began to tidy it up and look around for the plastic bag . |
| 9 | I never know when anybody is , I know what year they were born , I have to count it up and see how old |
| 10 | As Kalchu and I and some of the other men set out for home , they started to gather it up and hack off the dead branches that jut out from pine-trunks like thin stumps of arms . |