Example sentences of "[pers pn] up and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a concert or disco , if you 've arranged for someone to pick you up and they do n't arrive — speak to the organisers and ask them if you can phone home . |
| 2 | And he said , he said he tried to phone you up and I said oh do n't worry . |
| 3 | Phoned you up and I begged you to come |
| 4 | To an extent you 're your own master … you can decide what you want to do and when you want to do it … it 's not like being at work when somebody rings you up and you 've got to go down and see them or you 've got to do this and that within half an hour . |
| 5 | If somebody beats you up and you feel hurt and upset and it 's enormously painful then you need to go to casualty afterwards erm that sort of fits the scripts y'know that 's w that 's that 's understandable . |
| 6 | Was n't it did n't you ring them up and they said we have exams on or something ? |
| 7 | The buil the I 've rung them up and they said they 'd do it . |
| 8 | You get wee hooks and you hang them up and they stick there right , and just put your cups on it in a row and it gives you more room on the table . |
| 9 | I 've got some bits in there for her a few kittens in there for a couple of days I , so they 'd go up , pick them up and they get left |
| 10 | Mary had come down , made mugs of coffee , had taken them up and they lay , no doubt , side by side , in that amazing double bed , which had a proper headboard , and little built-in side tables . |
| 11 | print them up and they do it on their own will . |
| 12 | phone them up and they say , alright you fat old bastard how 're you doing ? |
| 13 | I wake them up and we shamble along towards the Customs . |
| 14 | We went out , we took photographs , we come back , we printed them up and we helped each other to learn more techniques and whatever . |
| 15 | Well they , er nowhere , we did n't get them from anywhere we just used to think them up and everyone thought we were potty did n't they ? |
| 16 | And you fold them up and you put them in something . |
| 17 | in here , you just tape them on , bang them down who it was and when it was and then on Friday he picks them up and you get twenty five quids worth of vouchers from Marks and Spencers . |
| 18 | Picking them up and you get they put one paw on the settee like and I said no Windy and he went |
| 19 | Well I phoned them up and you know they I only have to say it 's Mrs and they say oh ! |
| 20 | And if you 're with National Westminster , you telephone a , a n a number in Manchester or Birmingham or two or three other places I guess but as far as we 're concerned er the Birmingham Manchester one 's the cheapest you , you ring them up and you give them A your identification number and it immediately tells you what your balance is . |
| 21 | is erm , well you do it , you 've got one Joker in pack right , and you mix them up and you deal them out and you look at your cards , if you 've got a Joker |
| 22 | I say that was naughty I normally wash them up and I put it back in there |
| 23 | I thought I 'll ring er , G T Motors up , that 's one not far from us , so I rang them up and I said , do you put radio cassettes in cars ? |
| 24 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 25 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 26 | I just wondered because we were in Winners once and it had some and he picked them up and he looked at them and he said I do n't think these are the right shape for my car and I know he needs some . |
| 27 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 28 | If she admitted that Ryan smoked her parents would probably break them up and she did n't want that . |
| 29 | Like , Friday night all the boys came up and then they picked me up and we did n't come back . |
| 30 | And we had some friends there and one day one of them rang me up and she said , could , could we come quickly we 've got a , a monitor lizard in the garden ? |