Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 2 | So where she fill it up from ? |
| 3 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
| 4 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
| 5 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 6 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 7 | Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends . |
| 8 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 9 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 10 | Yes , so you divided it up like that |
| 11 | erm What happens if erm your boss is n't on the phone and their boss has transferred all their calls to the other phone , the other phone rings as well as the secretaries ring , so you pick it up on your phone , which is R star star 3 , and then you want to get it through to the boss , but when you ring the number it comes through to the other phone . |
| 12 | It was pouring with rain , so we dolled ourselves up in wet-weather gear and swayed like Michelin men back down the lakeside path nicknamed by Stuart the Yellow Brick Road . |
| 13 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 14 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 15 | Mr Nikiforuk finds medical history funny , but not quite funny enough ; so he peps it up with his own very special kind of wince-making metaphors and similes . |
| 16 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 17 | I thought if I wrapped myself up in chickenwire and cut myself out again I would be left with a realistic shape . |
| 18 | They are smooth and stiff but will serve if I scrunch them up before use . |
| 19 | Cos I looked it up in the paper ! |
| 20 | Well that one really is I mean cos I see them up in the woods quite a lot |
| 21 | She preferred to use vagina — until she looked it up in the dictionary , which gave its etymology ( vagina is Latin for ‘ sheath ’ , as in where you keep your sword ) . |
| 22 | They are still good food if you chop them up into suitably sized pieces , or larger fish , such as adult Angelfish will eat woodlice whole . |
| 23 | I hope she did n't find it as easy as she told them , if you shut them up in their room . |
| 24 | ‘ In that case it would be better if you brought us up to date with what 's been happening first . ’ |
| 25 | " If you throw it up in the air , " the elfin one said , " it will evaporate before it reaches the ground . |
| 26 | A. T. In those days , if you locked somebody up at night , you might be let off duty at three o'clock in the morning . |
| 27 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |
| 28 | The first pad , if you hold it up against any of the other pads , you 'll see that it 's actually slightly shorter . |
| 29 | if you put it up to same they would n't come likely ? |
| 30 | If you kept it up to three months there 's cat in hell 's chance you 'll lose it after that . |