Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll hang you up over this machine , teach you to respect it . ’ |
| 2 | But if it 's something , you know , more serious than then the the client should be aware from you , that they should be ringing you up at this stage . |
| 3 | Did Shirley put you up to this ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's our Ernest put you up to this , ’ Sarah interrupted . |
| 5 | ‘ Who put you up to this ? ’ he demanded . |
| 6 | ‘ Did Claire put you up to this ? ’ |
| 7 | What villainy are you up to this time ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Has Candy put you up to this ? ’ |
| 9 | Who 's put you up to this call ? |
| 10 | What , what are you up to this evening on the sport front ? |
| 11 | Fright fully had show , waking you up like this … but I 've got something damn peculiar here . " |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the most tremendous imposition , I know , and I have absolutely no right to call you up like this or anything , but I just — I just … ’ |
| 13 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 14 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 15 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 16 | Ebbo , added Charles , often took her up on this promise . |
| 17 | I took her up on this , and the first thing we did was to bring Southall and Kizzy home . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've put her up to this . |
| 19 | See they build her up with this blood and she was alright then , you see . |
| 20 | How dared Rune set her up like this ? |
| 21 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 22 | I was never able to take him up on this kindness , alas , since he and half the drugs squad were themselves arrested a few days later . |
| 23 | No , you said would I bring it up at this meeting . |
| 24 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
| 25 | I take it up to this , yes |
| 26 | That 's right , so we need to turn the boat round and line it up like this . |
| 27 | next to the fire place , er a lot of people have put it up in this corner and , but |
| 28 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 29 | Most will think " Now what is he up to this time ? " . |
| 30 | To take us up on this unusual opportunity , simply call us , toll free , at the number shown , or mail the reservation application below . |