Example sentences of "up [conj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told my Dad to keep him locked up or on his lead . |
| 2 | If Edward Pitt picked up that in you , no wonder he was angry . |
| 3 | certainly do n't think where we going is suitable for a puddy tat , hours and hours on end and not being allowed to go outside and even when we 're there , I say , we ca n't be running up and down them bloody staircases letting cats out , I could n't , I could n't bear the thought of it never going out . |
| 4 | What we should have done of course , and did n't , was to notify the neighbours who were on fire-watching duty up and down our road . |
| 5 | then , no Ian had an orange one and when we pedalled it up and down it kept falling off so Katie put a bolt in it , a wee little one and it screwed onto the tractor bit . |
| 6 | if I went up and down it would cost me eighty pence . |
| 7 | When I said that spike went up his trouser leg and shouted and up and at them ! |
| 8 | Anyway at least all our lads had a good rest this last two weeks , so it 'll be up and at 'em on Saturday . |
| 9 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm so glad that you 're still up and at it , ’ said Lee . |
| 11 | Because when you pray that he does n't send the person beside you , he does n't send the other person he says , right boy up and at it ! |
| 12 | The paternalism of so many large continental undertakings owed something to this long association of workers with the firm with which they , as it were , grew up and on which they depended . |
| 13 | The next morning I was up and on my way to work by eight o'clock . |
| 14 | Hopefully with Mick O'Toole 's son Kieran acting as agent the rides should soon mount up and with them will come the winners . |
| 15 | Phoebe was still asleep beside her , curled up and with her back close to her daughter 's : Maggie enjoyed the moment of comfort , adding it dreamily to the shadow that was also there . |
| 16 | Yes , I would hope that er this is a mark time ; it gives us a time to re-examine some of the schemes to see whether they are as financially viable as they looked er when perhaps times were better , and we would be hoping very much that er the economy will pick up and with it , land sales . |
| 17 | Our personal involvement with them brings them the warmth of human love , while at the same time raising them up and beyond their problems to the love and healing of God . |
| 18 | It encouraged Baldersdale to look up and beyond its natural boundaries . |
| 19 | Theda huddled against the bedhead , drawing the covers up and over her breasts , as she watched him tidy his clothes and wrap the wrecked neckcloth carelessly about his throat . |
| 20 | Some companies assume that their staff accept that colleagues X and Y will move up and over their heads , and are content to see it happen . |
| 21 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 22 | It ran right up and over his cheekbones , leading one to suspect that it was important for him to shave his eye sockets and forehead daily , if he wanted to avoid becoming altogether bestial . |
| 23 | His forearms were lying on the desk and his skinny torso was framed by a proscenium arch of ring binders , set on shelves that marched up and over his head . |
| 24 | Eventually , the bird builds the walls up and over itself to form a dome , but leaves a neat entrance hole at the side . |
| 25 | Her heart thumped and her blood surged through her veins while her arms crept up and about his neck . |
| 26 | Well before both , my alert mind has me up and about my mother 's business . |
| 27 | Mind you , I will say that when I explained things to her she was up and into her jumper and jeans in a flash and in no time at all we were hammering down the road towards Carlisle . |
| 28 | But I stooped like lightning and got the nail up and into my skirt pocket — specially put on — and I was standing exactly as he left me when he jumped back . |
| 29 | Ace was so much part of her unacknowledged dreams that it was barely a shock therefore to find herself pulled up and into his strong arms . |
| 30 | Biting off the rest , fitzAlan reached down and pulled Isabel up and into his arms . |