Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The sooner ye 're gone , the sooner ye 'll be back … then I 'll run ye up to Dublin and get ye on the plane , ’ he said hopefully .
2 But it 's er had it we took round to that fella round Dash Hill there well Alec took it and er he said I 'll ring you up in morning and give you an estimate .
3 ‘ It was Mr Gray 's custom to pick you up from Medewich and take you out to Markham cum Cumbermound .
4 General practitioners have also found intensive courses in diabetes helpful in keeping them up to date and improving their clinical skills .
5 But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification .
6 He also handcuffed prisoners , swung them up on hooks and watched them dangle .
7 Wire them up with microphones and start the camera rolling , however , and all candour vanished .
8 Pot them up in September and bring into the greenhouse for winter flowers .
9 They conserve nutrients , especially nitrogen , by taking them up in autumn and releasing them in spring .
10 And they picked me up in turn and gave me a kiss .
11 He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and
12 With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation .
13 Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics
14 One of the Edinburgh employers ( perhaps inadvertently ) revealed that " either very experienced girls or experienced men make it up into pages or make it up into sheets " .
15 I 'm going to unravel the little prick 's knickers , and I 'm going to expose its little rubber bladder , or whatever it is those obnoxious bloody choirboys filled with joke-shop blood , then I 'm going to fill it up with piss and hang it back on that music stand .
16 He stole a chicken from work , and I watched as he stuffed it and sewed it up with needle and thread in his girlfriend 's flat , frowning with ponderous alcoholic severity .
17 ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens .
18 In bringing it up to date and making it profitable , he had to tread warily , for although it was made up of land and property , it was essentially about people .
19 You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again .
20 Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle .
21 Shooting 'em up on screen and soiling your favourite hanky may both be furtive exercises , but they do train your digits a whole lot better than cross-country runs and cold showers !
22 They have no relevance to the story , but do bring us up to date and give the all-important illusion of gravitas which accompanies everything Branagh does .
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