Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 2 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 3 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
| 4 | For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef . |
| 5 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 6 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
| 7 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 8 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 9 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 10 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
| 12 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 13 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
| 15 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 16 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 17 | Progress charts are evident in all areas of the company , measuring quality improvements and waste reduction , many of them drawn up by the production staff . |
| 18 | Most of them ended up in the Middle East with Layforce , and when that was broken up they attached themselves to Combined Operations in Alexandria . |
| 19 | ‘ So now , my dears , there 's two of you to warm up by the fire ! ’ |
| 20 | For a moment there was silence , then the boy spoke again , the whole of him gathered up into the movement of his lips . |
| 21 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 22 | Well when you had your grab , you used to lower it on the deck of the , deck of the erm trawler and when you open your grab , that much , a lot of it hold up in the grab you see , you could n't get so of course when you did take your grab up , lot of it went over the side . |
| 23 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 24 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 25 | What 's forty-eight hours and a good part of it taken up on the train ! |
| 26 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 27 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 28 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 29 | Buoyed by a tidal wave of beer , around 10 of us ended up at the Silver Dollar saloon , a noisy local landmark full of cowboys . |
| 30 | And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good . |