Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a mum as a single parent and two grandparents and they did an excellent job of bringing me up ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Arthur was just kept bringing me up food all the time . |
| 5 | What about your taking responsibility for cleaning the room once a week and looking after your clothes by hanging them up ? ’ |
| 6 | Nearby , fishermen sort their nets before hanging them up to dry in the tall net ‘ shops ’ that are unique to Hastings ; and delicious fresh fish is always available from the fishmarket . |
| 7 | You must get some means of hanging them up . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 9 | It 's phoning them up and the person I want to talk to is n't there ! |
| 10 | phoning them up . |
| 11 | Okay it 's erm I du n no , I du n no how they 'll feel about you phoning them up though to be honest with you . |
| 12 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 13 | and Alan 's started phoning me up and saying |
| 14 | I told her not to bother phoning me up . |
| 15 | Told Jessica not to bother phoning me up . |
| 16 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 17 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 18 | We are not talking about removing powers from the layer of government below local government and sucking them up ; we are talking about taking power from the centre . |
| 19 | And tonight I 'm having two of my very favourite friends over and I 'm gon na be eating my and I 'm gon na go sucking them up , urgh I can hardly wait . |
| 20 | He kept touching me up , touching my breasts . |
| 21 | This guy sitting behind me started playing with my hair and touching me up . |
| 22 | There he was , having a grand time pulling off clusters of half-grown green apples and gobbling them up . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 24 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 25 | Furiously she began gathering them up , two spots of colour highlighting her cheeks as his hands came down over hers . |
| 26 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 27 | ‘ You OK , son ? ’ he asked , helping me up . |
| 28 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 29 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 30 | She believed in building them up . |