Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] up [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My friend has never skied before , ’ I panted , after picking her up out of a picket fence . |
| 2 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 3 | Locke 's surprise appearance was his way of repaying Diana for her part in setting him up recently on TV 's This Is Your Life . |
| 4 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 5 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |