Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 2 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 3 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 4 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 5 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 6 | Perhaps Jackson has turned something up at the hospital . |
| 7 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 8 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 9 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 10 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 11 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 13 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 14 | But you have no faith in the power of the economy and want to prop it up with the crutches of the rotten police regime . |
| 15 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 16 | Dear Julie gets drunk and for some bizarre reason suddenly starts feeling you up under the table while we 're nibbling our cheese and biscuits , and making pathetic double-entendres , and attacks you outside the bathroom ; totally unprovoked , of course , and it 's all just the drink talking . |
| 17 | There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard . |
| 18 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 19 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 20 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 21 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 22 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 23 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 24 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 25 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 26 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 27 | This is a similar fallacy to that of those in my profession who are constantly aspiring to bring everybody up to the average . |
| 28 | Sometimes , he would add lines like : ‘ You 've got to pick them up from the carpet , or they 'll tread in . |
| 29 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 30 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |