Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 2 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 3 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 4 | Is my hon. Friend aware that while Derbyshire county council 's policies have led to the redundancies of hundreds of teachers recently , and while Derbyshire is the only county in England to have fewer policemen than 10 years ago , none the less the county council 's job creation priorities have managed to find no fewer than three posts at £40,000 per annum for former Labour councillors and Members of Parliament , the council leader has fitted himself up with a job at an annual equivalent salary of £40,000 , the leader of the Derbyshire Labour party — one David Skinner — has been given a job as a minder to Japanese business men despite being kicked out of the council for corruption 15 years ago , and his wife has been given a job at £23,000 per annum in the council 's bloated publicity department ? |
| 5 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 6 | But he emphasised that he would not put himself up as a challenger to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 8 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |
| 9 | He 's a simple manic-depressive , as Millie could evidently see , and he 's talking himself up like a balloon from the safe plains of the depression into the thin , high air of the mania . |
| 10 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 12 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 13 | What kind of friend hooks you up on a beam over a terrifying machine ? … |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll beam you up to a point in space close to the centre of a galaxy . |
| 15 | ‘ If you do , ’ he said softly , leaning towards her , ‘ we 'll slice you up like a joint of meat . ’ |
| 16 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 17 | I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife . |
| 18 | The prospect of a play attempting to deal realistically with the phenomenon of drug and club culture would seem to be setting itself up as a target for scorn and ridicule from people involved in the scene and as a scapegoat for moral guardians who bitterly oppose it . |
| 19 | So a violent kind of self-accelerating process would take place , with the magma rapidly blowing itself up into a froth of gas and liquid rock and blasting itself clear out of the vent . |
| 20 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 21 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 22 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 23 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 24 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 25 | If the hon. Gentleman can give examples of IFAs who have failed to give good independent advice , he should refer them to me , or direct to the regulatory body , which will take them up as a matter of urgency . |
| 26 | John and his friend then began to fight back and were gaining the upper hand when the police intervened slamming them up against a wall with their arms pinned behind their backs . |
| 27 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd like to shut me up in a box for the next two years . |
| 29 | I crawl , I kiss your arse , do everything — ’ She had worked herself up into a state of almost incoherent fury , like a child in a tantrum , tears streaming down her face and her whole body shaking in a sort of passion as she suddenly flew at him , clawing with her nails . |
| 30 | As Travis set her down on her good leg inside the hut she gave herself up to a sense of fatalism . |