Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
| 2 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 3 | I had a mum as a single parent and two grandparents and they did an excellent job of bringing me up ! |
| 4 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 5 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 6 | Arthur was just kept bringing me up food all the time . |
| 7 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 8 | You ought to see them up it 's sort of like a leg here , half a leg there a bit of chatting up . |
| 9 | They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know . |
| 10 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 11 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 12 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 13 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 14 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 15 | Yeah took me in to er build me up . |
| 16 | Then I bring them up here and let them draw . |
| 17 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 18 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 19 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 20 | And they bring them up to me |
| 21 | In the past , in the past these children would be so severely mentally handicapped that they could n't lead a normal life , but if , if your able to control this disease and bring them up intellectually normal so that they 're like everybody else , they 're going to have the same life expectation and hopes and aspirations as the best , that 's the best of us , and what do women do when they get to the |
| 22 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 23 | I think it 's actually still inbuilt in erm children 's minds , and I think it 's sometimes the mother 's own fault because they still bring them up , you know like , girls will do this and boys will do that , I think that is actually still still there , you know . |
| 24 | And bring them up later ? |
| 25 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 26 | That 's the only one that ever I remembered but they were all , and they you know they , they used to graze their horses up there in that field up at the top , and this Billy that used to go round all the district and , and buy up all these old cast horses and bring them up there until he had a consignment gathered up . |
| 27 | Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards . |
| 28 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 29 | Bring them up there . |
| 30 | you know , put the whistle on , and then bring them up and that 'll be me |